Introduction : Immigration and immigration research in the United States / Nancy Foner, Rubin G. Rumbaut, Steven J. Gold -- Part I. Studying immigration : disciplinary perspectives and future research needs -- Immigration research in the United States : social origins and future orientations / Ruben G. Rumbaut -- The sociological roots and multidisciplinary future of immigration research / Mary C. Waters -- Anthropology and the study of immigration / Nancy Foner -- Race and immigration history / George J. Sanchez -- The politics of immigration policy : an externalist perspective / Aristide R. Zolberg -- Immigration studies and the Social Science Research Council / Josh DeWind -- Filling in some holes : six areas of needed immigration research / Herbert J. Gans -- Part II. Studies of immigration : research from a new generation of scholars : political economy, membership, and the state -- Which face? : Whose nation? Immigration, public health, and the construction of disease at America's ports and bordrers, 1891 to 1928 / Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern -- "The exported to care" : a transnational history of Filipino nurse migration to the United States / Catherine Ceniza Choy -- Transnational political strategies : the case of Mexican indigenous migrants / Gaspar Rivera-Salgado -- Naturalization under changing conditions of membership : Dominican immigrants in New York City / Greta Gilbertson and Audrey Singer -- Participation in liberal democracy : the political assimilation of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the United States / Jane Junn -- The rise of nonstate actors in migration regulation in the United States and Europe : changing the gatekeepers or bringing back the state? / Gallya Lahav -- One border, two crossings : Mexican migration to the United States as a two-way process / Steven S. Zahniser -- Immigrant labor recruitment : U.S. agribusness and undocumented migration from Mexico / Fred Krissman -- Skilled immigrants and cerebreros : foreign-born engineers and scientists in the high technology industry of Silicon Valley / Rafael Alarcon -- Immigrant and African American competition : Jewish, Korean, and African American entrepreneurs / Jennifer Lee -- Outsourcing the hearth : the impact of immigration on labor allocation in American families / Kathy A. Kaufman -- En el norte la mujer manda : gender, generation, and geography in a Mexican transnational community / Jennifer S. Hirsch -- Dialing 911 in Nuer : gender transformations and domestic violence in a Midwestern Sudanese refugee community / Jon D. Holtzman -- Language, race, and the new immigrants : the example of Southern Italians / Nancy C. Carnevale -- A new white flight : the dynamics of neighborhood change in the 1980s / Ingrid Gould Ellen -- Transnational community and its ethnic consequences : the return migration and the transformation of ethnicity of Japanese-Peruvians / Ayumi Takenaka -- Migrants participate across borders : toward an understanding of forms and consequences / Peggy Levitt.