Research Catalog

Title

• Migration theory : talking across disciplines / edited by Caroline B. Brettell, James F. Hollifield.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brettell, Caroline
• Hollifield, James Frank, 1954-
• Social Science History Association

Description

viii, 239 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This work brings together, in a single volume, essays dealing with central concepts and key theoretical issues in the study of international migration.

Subject

• Emigration and Immigration
• Emigration and immigration > Congresses

Note

• Chiefly papers presented at a meeting of the Social Science History Association.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Migration theory: talking across disciplines / Caroline B. Brettell, James F. Hollifield -- History and the study of immigration: narratives of the particular / Hasia R. Diner -- Demography and international migration / Charles B. Keely -- Are immigrants favorably self-selected? An economic analysis / Barry R. Chiswick -- The sociology of immigration: from assimilation to segmented integration, from the American experience to the global arena / Barbara Schmitter Heisler -- Theorizing migration in anthropology: the social construction of networks, identities, communities, and globalscapes / Caroline B. Brettell -- The politics of international migration: how can we "bring the state back in?" / James F. Hollifield -- Law and the study of migration / Peter H. Schuck -- The economic analysis of immigration law / Howard F. Chang.

ISBN

• 0415926106 (hb)
• 0415926114 (pb)

LCCN

^^^99087915^

OCLC

43115140

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library