SPECIALIZATION EXAM: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Committee: Bryan Roberts (chair), Cindy Buckley, Andres Villarreal
Fall 2006/Erin Hamilton
OVERVIEWS
Massey, Arango, Hugo, Kouaouci, Pellegrino, Taylor. 1998. Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Zlotnik. 1998. “International Migration 1965-96: An Overview.” Population and Development Review 24(3): 429-468.
Massey and Taylor. “Introduction” and “Back to the Future: Immigration Research, Immigration Policy, and Globalization in the Twenty-first Century.” Chapters 1 and 20 in Massey and Taylor (eds.), International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market. New York: Oxford University Press.
Zlotnik. “Population Growth and International Migration” Chapter 2 in Massey and Taylor (eds.), International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market. New York: Oxford University Press.
CAUSES OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Lewis, W.A. 1954. “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor.” Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies 22:139-91.
Sjaastad, L.A. 1962. “The Costs and Returns of Human Migration.” Journal of Policy Economy 70(5): 80-93.
Lee, Everett. 1966. “A Theory of Migration.” Demography 3: 47-57.
Todaro, M. 1969. “A Model of Labor Migration and Urban Unemployment in Less Developed Countries.” American Economic Review 59: 138-48.
Frisbie. 1975. “Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States: A Longitudinal Analysis.” International Migration Review 9:3-13.
Piore, M. 1979. Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor in Industrial Societies. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stark, O. and D. Levhari. 1982. “On Migration and Risk in LDCs.” Economic Development and Cultural Change 31(1): 191-196.
Portes, A. and R.L. Bach. 1985. Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Stark, O. and D.E. Bloom. 1985. “The New Economics of Labor Migration.” American Economic Review 75: 173-178.
Zolberg, A. 1986. “International Factors in the Formation of Refugee Movements.” International Migration Review 20(2): 151-69.
Taylor, J.E. 1987. “Undocumented Mexico-US Migration and the Returns to Household in Rural Mexico.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 69: 626-38.
Sassen, S. 1988. The Mobility of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor Flows. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Borjas, G. 1989. “Economic Theory and International Migration.” International Migration Review 23:457-85.
Stark, O. and J.E. Taylor. 1989. “Relative Deprivation and International Migration.” Demography 26(1): 1-14.
Massey, Alarcon, Durand, Gonzalez. 1990. Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico. Berkeley, CA: UC Press.
Massey, D. 1990. “Social structure, household strategies, and cumulative causation of migration.” Population Index 56:3-26.
Sassen, S. 1991. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Massey, Douglas A. Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, and J. Edward Taylor. 1994. "An Evaluation of International Migration Theory: The North American Case." Population and Development Review 20: 699-751.
Massey, Goldring, and Durand. 1994. “Continuities in Transnational Migration: An Analysis of Nineteen Mexican Communities.” American Journal of Sociology 99(6): 1492-1533.
Massey DS, Espinosa KE. 1995. “What's driving Mexico-US migration? A theoretical, empirical, and policy analysis.” American Journal of Sociology 102 (4): 939-999.
Lindstrom, D. 1996. “Economic Opportunity in Mexico and Return Migration from the United States.” Demography 33(3): 357-374.
Portes, A. 1997. “Immigration theory for a new century: Some problems and opportunities.” International Migration Review 31(4): 799-825.
Palloni, Massey, Ceballos. 2001. “Social Capital and International Migration: A Test using information on family networks.” American Journal of Sociology 106(5): 1262-1298.
Fussel. 2004. “Sources of Mexico’s Migration Stream: Rural, Urban, and Border Migrants to the United States.” Social Forces 83(3): 937-960.
Fussel, E. and D. Massey. 2004. “The Limits to Cumulative Causation: International Migration from Mexican Urban Areas.” Demography 41(1): 151-171.
Feliciano, C. 2005. “Educational Selectivity in U.S. Immigration: How Do Immigrants Compare to Those Left Behind?” Demography 42(1): 131-152.
ASSIMILATION
Gordon, M. 1964. Assimilation in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gans, H. 1979. “Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 2(1): 1-20.
Waters, M. 1990. Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Portes & Zhou. 1993. “The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 530: 74-96.
Alba, Richard and Victor Nee. 1997. “Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration.” International Migration Review 31 (4): 826-74.
Zhou, Min. 1997. “Segmented assimilation: Issues, controversies, and recent research on the new second generation.” International Migration Review 31(4):975-
Hirschman, C. 2001. "The Educational Enrollment of Immigrant Youth: A Test of the Segmented-Assimilation Hypothesis." Demography 38(3): 317-336.
Portes and Rumbaut. 2001. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Alba, Lutz, Vesselinov. 2001. “How Enduring were the Inequalities among European Immigrant Groups in the United States?” Demography 38(3): 349-356.
Borjas, G.J. 2001. “Long-Run Convergence of Ethnic Skill Differentials, Revisited.” Demography 38(3): 357-361.
Clark, WAV. 2003. Immigrants and the American Dream: Remaking the Middle Class. New York: Guilford Press.
Jasso, G. 2004. “Have the Occupational Skills of New Immigrants to the United States Declined Over Time? Evidence from the Immigrant Cohorts of 1977, 1982, and 1994.” Chapter 14 in Massey and Taylor (eds.), International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market. New York: Oxford University Press.
Logan, Alba, Zhang. 2002. “Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic Communities in New York and Los Angeles.” American Sociological Review 67(2): 299-322.
Hirschman, C. 2005. “Immigration and the American Century.” Demography 42(4): 595-620.
GENDER
Pedraza, S. 1991. “Women and Migration: The Social Consequences of Gender.” Annual Review of Sociology 17: 303-325.
Pessar, P. 1999. “The Role of Gender, Households, and Social Networks in the Migration Process: A Review and Appraisal.” Chapter 3 in Hirschman, Kasinitz, and DeWind (eds.) The Handbook of International Migration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Grasmuck, S. and P. Pessar. 1991. Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, P. 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hondagneu and Avila. 1997. “’I'm Here, but I'm There’: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood.” Gender and Society 11(5): 548-571.
Kanaiaupuni SM. 2000. “Reframing the migration question: An analysis of men, women, and gender in Mexico.” Social Forces. 78 (4): 1311-1347.
TRANSNATIONALISM
Glick Schiller, Basch, Blanc-Szanton. 1992. Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity and Nationalism Reconsidered. New York: Academy of Sciences.
Levitt, P. 1998. “Social Remittances: Migration-Driven Local-Level Forms of Cultural Diffusion.” International Migration Review 32(4): 926-948.
Glick Schiller, N. 1999. “Transmigrants and Nation-States: Something Old and Something New in the U.S. Immigrant Experience.” Chapter 5 in Hirschman, Kasinitz, and DeWind (eds.) The Handbook of International Migration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Roberts, Frank, Lozano. 1999. “Transnational migrant communities and Mexican migration to the U.S.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 22(2): 238-266.
THE STATE
Donato, K., et al. 1992. “Stemming the Tide? Assessing the Deterrent Effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act.” Demography 29: 139-157.
Buckley. 1995. “The Myth of Managed Migration: Migration Control and Market in the Soviet Period.” Slavic Review 54(4): 896-916.
Massey, D. 1999. “International Migration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: The Role of the State.” Population and Development Review 25(2): 303-322
Zolberg, A. 1999. “Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy.” Chapter 4 in Hirschman, Kasinitz, and DeWind (eds.) The Handbook of International Migration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Cornelius, W. 2001. “Death at the Border: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Control Policy.” Population and Development Review 27(4): 661-685.
Massey, Durand, Malone. 2002. Beyond Smoke & Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Castles, S. 2004. “Why Migration Policies Fail.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 27(2): 205-227.
IMMIGRATION & LOCAL LABOR MARKETS
Card, D. 1990. “The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 43(2): 245-57.
Frey, W. 1995. “Immigration and Internal Migration ‘Flight’ from US Metropolitan Areas: Toward a New Demographic Balkanization.” Urban Studies 32(4): 733-757.
White and Liang. 1998. “The effect of immigration on the internal migration of the native-born population, 1981-1990.” Population Research and Policy Review 17: 141-166.
Kritz and Gurak. 2001. “The Impact of Immigration on the Internal Migration of Natives and Immigrants.” Demography 38(1): 133-145.
Borjas, G.J. 2003. “The Labor Demand Curve Is Sloping Downwards: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(4): 1335-1374.
Card, D. 2005. “Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?” The Economic Journal 115: F300-F323.
CONSEQUENCES IN SENDING COMMUNITIES
Durand, J., W. Kandel, E.A. Parrado, and D.S. Massey. 1996. “International Migration and Development in Mexican Communities.” Demography 33(2): 249-264.
Kanaiaupuni, S.M. and K.M. Donato. 1999. “Migradollars and Mortality: The Effects of Migration on Infant Survival in Mexico.” Demography 36(3): 339-353.
Kapur, D. 2004. “Remittances: The New Development Mantra?” United Nations G-24 Discussion Paper No. 29.
Taylor, JE. 2004. “Remittances, Savings, and Development in Migrant-Sending Areas.” Chapter 9 in Massey and Taylor (eds.), International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market. New York: Oxford University Press.
Kandel, William and Douglas S. Massey. 2002. “The Culture of Mexican Migration: A
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.” Social Forces 80(3): 981-1004.
IMMIGRATION & HEALTH
Markides, K.S. and J. Coreil. 1986. “The Health of Hispanics in the Southwestern United States: An Epidemiologic Paradox.” Public Health Reports 101(3): 253-65.
Forbes, D. and W.P. Frisbie. 1991. “Spanish Surname and Anglo Infant Mortality Differentials Over Half a Century.” Demography 28(4): 639-660.
Abraido-Lanza, A.F., B.P. Dohrenwend, D.S. Ng-Mak, and J.B. Turner. 1999. “The Latino Mortality Paradox: A Test of the ‘Salmon Bias’ and Healthy Migrant Hypotheses.” American Journal of Public Health 89(10): 1543-1548.
Nancy S.Landale, R. S. Oropesa, Bridget K. Gorman. 2000. “Migration and Infant Death: Assimilation or Selective Migration among Puerto Ricans?” American Sociological Review 65(6): 888-909.
Hummer, Robert A, Monique Biegler, Peter B. de Turk, Douglas Forbes, W. Parker Frisbie, Ying Hong, and Starling Pullum. 1999. "Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and Infant Mortality in the Unites States." Social Forces 77(3): 1083-1118.
Palloni, A. and J. Morenoff. 2001. “Interpreting the Paradoxical in the Hispanic Paradox: Demographic and Epidemiologic Approaches.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 954:140-174.
Palloni, Alberto and Elizabeth Arias. 2004. “Paradox Lost: Explaining the Hispanic Adult Mortality Advantage.” Demography 41(3): 385-415.
Elo, I.T., C.M. Turra, B. Kestenbaum, and B.R. Ferguson. 2004. “Mortality among Elderly Hispanics in the United States: Past Evidence and New Results.” Demography 41(1): 109-128.
ESTIMATING MIGRATION
Nicholson. 1990. “The Hidden Component in Census-Derived Migration Data: Assessing its Size and Distribution.” Demography 27(1): 111-119.
Massey and Singer. 1995. “New Estimates of Undocumented Mexican Migration and the Probability of Apprehension,” Demography 32(2): 203-213.
Bardsley and Storkey. 2000. “Estimating the Number of Refugees in London.” Journal of Public Health Medicine 22(3): 406-412.
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 2000. Statistical Yearbook of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1998. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C.
Bean, F., R. Corona, R. Tuiran, K.A. Woodrow-Lafield and J. Van Hook. 2001. “Circular, Invisible, and Ambiguous Migrants: Components of Difference in Estimates of the Number of Unauthorized Mexican Migrants in the United States.” Demography 38(3): 411-422.
Edmonston and Michalowski. 2004. “International Migration.” Chapter 18 in Siegel and Swanson (eds) The Methods and Materials of Demography. London, UK: Elsevier Academic Press.
Van Hook, Zhang, Bean, Passel. 2006. “Foreign-born Emigration: A New Approach and Estimates Based on Matched CPS Files.” Demography 43(2): 361-382.
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