Mass Migration to the United States

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. -- Ivan Light, (University of California, Los Angeles)
The editor, sociologist Pyong Gap Min, has provided readers with a useful source of information about earlier and current immigration to the United States. The topics covered in each of the chapters provide sound data on important aspects of immigration including such issues as countries of origin, public opinion, sources of conflict, social mobility, rates of naturalization, and residence and neighborhood formation. * Journal of American Ethnic History *
The volume demonstrates the value of comparative-historical research and formulates important questions for future research. Given the plethora of immigration studies, the book provides a novel, illuminating, and long overdue methodological angle. As such, it would be an excellent book to read for scholars in the field who need a fresh discussion fo immigration concepts and theories. It would also be useful for those exploring mass migration for the first time. -- Susan Mannon, University of the Pacific * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
American society is being transformed, once again, by immigration. More that one of five Americans are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Pyong Gap Min and his coauthors explain the impact of contemporary immigration—the post 1965 wave—to the United States with a systematic comparison of the present with the prior age in mass migration from 1880 to 1924. Although the new immigrants are from Latin America and Asia, compared to the European origins of the earlier wave of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, there are many parallels between the two eras of immigration. The research findings reported here will be of interest to specialists and to undergraduate students. -- Charles Hirschman, (University of Washington)