Research Catalog

Title

Quantitative data and immigration research / edited by Stephen R. Couch and Roy Simón Bryce-Laporte ; with the editorial assistance of MaryJane E. Kubler.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies, Smithsonian Institution, 1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Couch, Stephen Robert.
• Bryce-Laporte, Roy S.
• Kubler, MaryJane E.
• Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies (Smithsonian Institution)
• International Studies Association. Annual Convention (19th : 1978 : Washington, D.C.)

Description

xxxiv, 294 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

RIIES research notes ; no. 2

Uniform Title

RIIES research notes ; no. 2.

Subject

• Emigration and immigration > Statistics > Congresses
• Emigration and immigration > Research > Congresses
• Emigration and immigration
• Emigration and immigration > Research
• Emigration and immigration > Statistics
• United States > Emigration and immigration > Congresses
• United States

Genre/Form

• Government publications
• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Represents proceedings of two sessions held at the 19th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface / The editors -- Introduction: The study of the new immigration: some political and methodological deterrents / Roy S. Bryce-Laporte -- pt. I. Data collection and general availability -- Sources of data for the study of international migration / Donald Heisel -- Sources of data for the study of U.S. immigration / Ellen Percy Kraly -- Critical issues in using government data collected primarily for non-research purposes / Gilbert Cardenas -- Some thoughts on the study of immigration patterns within the modern world economy: established and alternative data sources / Elizabeth McLean Petras -- pt. II. Data availability and specific uses -- Some data and methodological issues regarding research on the economic progress of immigrants / Barry R. Chiswick -- Greener pastures: American expatriation and expatriates / Van B. Shaw -- A residential survey of illegal aliens / Leon Hunt -- Discussion / Charles B. Keely -- pt. III. Research notes on Caribbean migrants -- Note on the spatial diffusion of nurses from the Commonwealth Caribbean to Britain: quantitative methods and migration studies / Simon B. Jones-Hendrickson -- Issues in the measurement of external migration / G.W. Roberts -- Note on limitations of data and external migration in the Eastern Caribbean / G.W. Roberts -- Concluding essay: Quantitative immigration data, scientific knowledge and public policy: possibilities, limitations and interrelationships / Stephen R. Couch -- Appendix A: Programs to the sessions on quantitative data and immigration research of the International Studies Association Annual Meetings, February 1978 -- Appendix B: List of publications of the Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies -- Appendix C: Notes on contributors.

LCCN

79067154

OCLC

• ocm06436316
• 6436316
• SCSB-1810495

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library