We use survey data, augmented with data collected from respondents’ medical records, to explore selection into prenatal inputs among a group of urban, mostly unmarried mothers. We explore the extent to which several theoretically important but typically unobserved variables (representing...

Dialogue and discussion are necessary for the development of any new field of scholarship or analytical framework, especially when the point of contention is a long-established paradigm. However, the development of Transnational Migration Studies has been marred by something less salutary. Often...

CorreosChile es una empresa del Estado arraigada y presente en el corazón de la ciudadanía, especialmente en lugares apartados y que ven al servicio postal como un vínculo real y emocional con el resto del país. Esta empresa que nace en el siglo 18 fruto del proceso de modernización, y que...

Immigration since the 1960s has transformed the nation. Today, close to one-fourth of the American population is of immigrant stock – immigrants themselves or children of immigrants. The same rough proportion holds among young Americans, aged 18 or younger. Children of immigrants and immigrant...

Why is Jin telling us that we should learn Chinese? Is there an Asian American youth culture? How does immigration and relative generation define it? This essay addresses Americans of Asian descent1 who are roughly 18 to 25 years old: I focus on the mass-mediated popular cultures that they...

We review the empirical literature on ethnic economic enclaves after the concept was formulated twenty-five years ago. The balance of this literature is mixed, but many studies reporting negative conclusions were marred by faulty measurement of the concept. We discuss the original theoretical...

The great immigration battle of 2006 features, on one side, millions of immigrants and their supporters and, on the other, the Minutemen, some Congressmen, and Lou Dobbs. On the face of it, the battle is uneven, but then Dobbs has television on his side, and he uses it to great effect. The...

This paper provides an analysis of artistic expression about Mexican immigration to the U.S. drawing on work primarily created in the U.S. by Mexican and Chicano artists and other artists who have participated in creating a visual record and contemporary picture of Mexican migration to the U.S....

Este trabajo está orientado a describir y analizar el desarrollo de la Bolsa de Comercio de Santiago de Chile en tanto institución social. Ello supone asumir una perspectiva de análisis que incorpore, a lo menos, dos dimensiones centrales: Una propiamente institucional referida a las...

In the United States, the writing on the Vietnam War involves the highly organized and strategic forgetting of the Vietnamese people. In a highly original work that investigates the production of American cultural memory, Marita Sturken shows that in the United States, the narrative of the...