This essay examines the dynamics underlying contemporary South-North population displacements and the common gaps between public perceptions of the phenomenon and actual realities. I analyze these dynamics and gaps by focusing on the clash between opposing forces at various stages of the...

We review the literature on determinants of ethnic/national self-identities and self-esteem as a prelude to examining these outcomes among a large, statistically representative sample of second generation adolescents in Madrid and Barcelona. While these psycho-social outcomes are malleable, they...

We examine determinants of educational and occupational aspirations and expectations among children of immigrants in Spain on the basis of a unique data set that includes statistically representative data for foreign-origin secondary students in Madrid and Barcelona plus a sample of one-fourth...

The children of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. have been held up as exemplars for their academic prowess and their high levels of educational attainment. Although recent U.S.-based studies have attempted to debunk the ‘model minority’ hypothesis, showing that the actual educational...

We review the literature on determinants of ethnic/national self-identities and self-esteem as a prelude to examining these outcomes among a large, statistically representative sample of second generation adolescents in Madrid and Barcelona. While these psycho-social outcomes are malleable, they...

This study examines how Indian immigrants in the US have impacted Indian development. The vast majority of Indian immigrants in the US are said to provide individual funds to various causes and family members in India. These linkages are, however, extremely diffuse and informal and, therefore,...

This study aims to examine the origins and developments of Chinese immigrant transnational organizations in the United States and their effects on immigrants’ socioeconomic incorporation in the new homeland and development in the ancestral homeland. Over the past three decades, immigrant...

In late August of 1989, a Spanish immigration officer observed the crush of Moroccans returning to Europe by ferry from Tangier at the end of their summer vacations. Morocco is becoming to Spain what Mexico is to the United States, he complained (qtd. in Riding 1989). For decades, Moroccan...

Colombian organizations have been very busy these days organizing events to help the estimated two million people affected by the heavy rain that fell in various regions of Colombia last year and which caused slides, inundations, etc. In the greater New York area (NY, NJ and Connecticut),...