When does social capital clarify how networks work, and when does it become an empty catchall?

This rejoinder traces the origin of segmented assimilation theory and addresses the critical comments by highlighting some key points in the evolution of the concept and empirical research from the early nineteen nineties to the present.

No abstract available. EECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 29, No. 308-309, 1974: 345-364.

This essay seeks to contribute to the contemporary literature on urbanization by focusing on the internal diversity existing in one emerging global city-Miami. We present first overall economic characteristics of this metropolitan area before discussing characteristics of three pairs of municipalities within it. These localities were deliberately selected to highlight contrasts and disparities in the history and present situation of specific places that tend to be ignored or bypassed in general descriptions of a given metropolitan area. A focus on these disparities provides a necessary tool to fully understand the dynamics of urbanization under contemporary capitalism.

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants' incorporation within American society. With the latest available data, Immigrant America further explores the economic, political, regional, linguistic, and religious aspects of immigration. It offers detailed analyses of the adaptation process experienced by adult children of immigrants and adds an updated and expanded concluding chapter on changing immigration policy regimes both past and present.

The literature on immigrant entrepreneurship in the advanced countries tends to paint these initiatives in homogeneous colors. A debate lingers as well on the economic returns to self-employment by immigrant and ethnic groups. We present recent data demonstrating again the significant payoff to autonomous enterprise among all ethnic groups, but also the major differences in such returns among them. This provides the basis for a typology of immigrant enterprises and an analysis of their causes and potential effects for the development of sending nations. Human capital, social capital, and modes of incorporation are the principal determinants of types of immigrant enterprises in host nations. The stance of home country states determines the development potential of high-tech immigrant enterprises. Data and examples supporting these conclusions are presented and their theoretical and practical implications discussed.

This article begins with an in-depth examination of two contrasting perspectives on the impact of migration on the development prospects of sending countries and regions. The first school of thought took a decidedly negative stance on these relationships, regarding out-migration as both a symptom and a cause of underdevelopment. In contrast, the second school took a far more optimistic position, regarding out-migration as a source of economic and cultural benefits for places of origin that could, under certain conditions, lift them out of poverty and backwardness. However, it cautions that both schools neglected to discuss the consequences of migration for receiving places and the migrants themselves. It argues that a comprehensive approach to migration and development must consider these aspects and their interactions. In most cases, modern migratory movements reinforce existing economic power relationships and class privilege in receiving or sending nations. The extent to which they do so is a central question in any attempt to develop a theory of the relationship between migration and development.

As a prelude to the following essays on nine cities selected as strategic research sites, this introduction traces, in summary fashion, the linkages between migration and the development of the capitalist world economy, including, the rise of cities and their development. The history of migration during these five centuries encompasses the movement of European settlers to the new colonies, followed by three centuries of trans-Atlantic slave trade leading in turn, to deliberate labour recruitment in three continents and, eventually, to the contemporary self-driven flows of both labourers and refugees. A final diagram summarizes this evolution and seeks to situate the origin and development of the nine selected cities within it.