Jennifer L. Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University.Jacqueline Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.Claudine Gay is Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard UniversityMichael Jones-Correa is Professor of Government at Cornell University.

• Table of Contents ; Authors' Biosketches ; Acknowledgements and Dedication ; Introduction, by the editors ; I. Are Immigrants Distinctive? ; 1. Incorporation versus Assimilation: The Need for Conceptual Differentiation, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan ; 2. Is Incorporation of Unauthorized Immigrants Possible? Inclusion and Contingency for Non-Status Migrants and Legal Immigrants, Maria Lorena Cook ; 3. Tracks of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Christian Joppke ; 4. Ideas and Institutions in Immigrant Political Incorporation, Robert C. Lieberman ; 5. Immigrant Political Incorporation: Beyond the Foreign-Born vs. Native-Born Distinction, Janelle Wong ; II. How Broad Is Politics In Immigrant Political Incorporation? ; 6. Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation, John Mollenkopf ; 7. Culture, Context, and the Political Incorporation of Immigrant-origin Groups in Europe, Rafaela Dancygier ; 8. Structuring Immigrants' Civic-Political Incorporation into the Host Society, Ewa Morawska ; 9. The Importance of Demographic and Social Contexts in Determining Political Outcomes, Monica McDermott ; 10. Thru-ways, By-ways and Cul-de-sacs of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Michael Jones-Correa ; III. How Should One Approach the Topic of Incorporation? ; 11. <"The Great Concern of Government>": Public Policy as Material and Symbolic Resources, Irene Bloemraad ; 12. The Political Economy of Immigrant Incorporation into the Welfare State, Nolan McCarty ; 13. Continuity and Change in the Citizenship Laws of Europe: The Impact of Public Mobilization and the Far Right, Marc Morje Howard ; 14. Political Opportunity Structures and the Mobilization of Anti-Immigrant Actors: Modeling Effects on Immigrant Political Incorporation, Michael Minkenberg ; 15. Behavioral and Attitudinal Components of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Gary Segura ; 16. Assimilation and Political Attitude Tradeoffs, Rahsaan Maxwell ; 17. Moving Up and In: Two Dimensions of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Jennifer Hochschild ; 18. Acquiescence or Transformation? Divergent Paths of Political Incorporation in America, Gary Gerstle ; IV. Rethinking Immigrant Political Incorporation: What Have We Learned, and What Next? Xavier de Sousa Briggs

This analytically incisive collection by a superb array of scholars provides an indispensable guide to one of the most fundamental social processes of our time. Anyone interested in the political inclusion of newcomers will profit from this state of the art volume.