Mass Migration to the United States

Pyong Gap Min teaches in the Department of Sociology at Queens College, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

• Part 0 Introduction Chapter 1: Troubled by Newcomers: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Action During Two Eras of Mass Migration Chapter 2: The Changing Face of America: Contemporary Immigration and the Dynamics of Race/Ethnicity Chapter 3: Immigration and Conflict in the United States Chapter 4: Contemporary Immigrants' Advantages for Intergenerational Cultural Transmission Chapter 5: Naturalization and US Citizenship in Two Periods of Mass Migration (1890-1930 and 1965-2000) Chapter 6: Immigrant Residence and Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York, 1910 and 1990 Chapter 7: Immigrant Women and Work in New York City, Then and Now Chapter 8: From "the Jazz Singer" to "What a Country": A Comparison of Jewish Immigrants to the U.S., 1880-1930 and 1965-1998 Chapter 9: A Comparison of Pre- and Post-1965 Asian Immigrant Businesses

Current migration to the United States naturally awakens comparative interest in America's last mass migration, the New Immigration of 1880-1924. Professor Min's Mass Migration to the United States now makes available an outstanding and unique collection of specialized articles each of which deals directly with a different aspect of this essential comparison. The results are sometimes surprising, and will require people to rethink simplistic historical analogies. This volume should be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand migration in American life.