SPECIALIZATION EXAM: INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Committee: Bryan Roberts (chair), Cindy Buckley, Andres Villarreal
Fall 2006/Erin Hamilton
OVERVIEWS
Massey, Arango, Hugo, Kouaouci, Pellegrino, Taylor. 1998. Worlds in Motion: Understanding
International Migration at the End of the Millennium. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Zlotnik. 1998. “International Migration 1965-96: An Overview.” Population and Development
Review 24(3): 429-468.
Massey and Taylor. “Introduction” and “Back to the Future: Immigration Research, Immigration
Policy, and Globalization in the Twenty-first Century.” Chapters 1 and 20 in Massey and Taylor
(eds.), International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Zlotnik. “Population Growth and International Migration” Chapter 2 in Massey and Taylor (eds.),
International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market. New York: Oxford University
Press.
CAUSES OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
Lewis, W.A. 1954. “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor.” Manchester
School of Economic and Social Studies 22:139-91.
Sjaastad, L.A. 1962. “The Costs and Returns of Human Migration.” Journal of Policy Economy
70(5): 80-93.
Lee, Everett. 1966. “A Theory of Migration.” Demography 3: 47-57.
Todaro, M. 1969. “A Model of Labor Migration and Urban Unemployment in Less Developed
Countries.” American Economic Review 59: 138-48.
Frisbie. 1975. “Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States: A Longitudinal Analysis.”
International Migration Review 9:3-13.
Piore, M. 1979. Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor in Industrial Societies. New York: Cambridge
University Press.
Stark, O. and D. Levhari. 1982. “On Migration and Risk in LDCs.” Economic Development and
Cultural Change 31(1): 191-196.
Portes, A. and R.L. Bach. 1985. Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United
States. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Stark, O. and D.E. Bloom. 1985. “The New Economics of Labor Migration.” American Economic
Review 75: 173-178.
Zolberg, A. 1986. “International Factors in the Formation of Refugee Movements.” International
Migration Review 20(2): 151-69.
Taylor, J.E. 1987. “Undocumented Mexico-US Migration and the Returns to Household in Rural
Mexico.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 69: 626-38.
Sassen, S. 1988. The Mobility of Labor and Capital: A Study in International Investment and Labor
Flows. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Borjas, G. 1989. “Economic Theory and International Migration.” International Migration Review
23:457-85.
Stark, O. and J.E. Taylor. 1989. “Relative Deprivation and International Migration.” Demography
26(1): 1-14.
Massey, Alarcon, Durand, Gonzalez. 1990. Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International
Migration from Western Mexico. Berkeley, CA: UC Press.
Massey, D. 1990. “Social structure, household strategies, and cumulative causation of migration.”
Population Index 56:3-26.
Sassen, S. 1991. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press.
Massey, Douglas A. Joaquin Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, and J.
Edward Taylor. 1994. "An Evaluation of International Migration Theory: The North American
Case." Population and Development Review 20: 699-751.
Massey, Goldring, and Durand. 1994. “Continuities in Transnational Migration: An Analysis of
Nineteen Mexican Communities.” American Journal of Sociology 99(6): 1492-1533.
Massey DS, Espinosa KE. 1995. “What's driving Mexico-US migration? A theoretical, empirical,
and policy analysis.” American Journal of Sociology 102 (4): 939-999.
Lindstrom, D. 1996. “Economic Opportunity in Mexico and Return Migration from the United
States.” Demography 33(3): 357-374.
Portes, A. 1997. “Immigration theory for a new century: Some problems and opportunities.”
International Migration Review 31(4): 799-825.
Palloni, Massey, Ceballos. 2001. “Social Capital and International Migration: A Test using
information on family networks.” American Journal of Sociology 106(5): 1262-1298.
Fussel. 2004. “Sources of Mexico’s Migration Stream: Rural, Urban, and Border Migrants to the
United States.” Social Forces 83(3): 937-960.
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Fussel, E. and D. Massey. 2004. “The Limits to Cumulative Causation: International Migration
from Mexican Urban Areas.” Demography 41(1): 151-171.
Feliciano, C. 2005. “Educational Selectivity in U.S. Immigration: How Do Immigrants Compare to
Those Left Behind?” Demography 42(1): 131-152.
ASSIMILATION
Gordon, M. 1964. Assimilation in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press.
Gans, H. 1979. “Symbolic Ethnicity: The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America.” Ethnic
and Racial Studies 2(1): 1-20.
Waters, M. 1990. Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Portes & Zhou. 1993. “The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants.”
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 530: 74-96.
Alba, Richard and Victor Nee. 1997. “Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of
Immigration.” International Migration Review 31 (4): 826-74.
Zhou, Min. 1997. “Segmented assimilation: Issues, controversies, and recent research on the new
second generation.” International Migration Review 31(4):975Hirschman, C. 2001. "The Educational Enrollment of Immigrant Youth: A Test of the SegmentedAssimilation Hypothesis." Demography 38(3): 317-336.
Portes and Rumbaut. 2001. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Alba, Lutz, Vesselinov. 2001. “How Enduring were the Inequalities among European Immigrant
Groups in the United States?” Demography 38(3): 349-356.
Borjas, G.J. 2001. “Long-Run Convergence of Ethnic Skill Differentials, Revisited.” Demography
38(3): 357-361.
Clark, WAV. 2003. Immigrants and the American Dream: Remaking the Middle Class. New York:
Guilford Press.
Jasso, G. 2004. “Have the Occupational Skills of New Immigrants to the United States Declined
Over Time? Evidence from the Immigrant Cohorts of 1977, 1982, and 1994.” Chapter 14 in Massey
and Taylor (eds.), International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market. New York:
Oxford University Press.
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Logan, Alba, Zhang. 2002. “Immigrant Enclaves and Ethnic Communities in New York and Los
Angeles.” American Sociological Review 67(2): 299-322.
Hirschman, C. 2005. “Immigration and the American Century.” Demography 42(4): 595-620.
GENDER
Pedraza, S. 1991. “Women and Migration: The Social Consequences of Gender.” Annual Review of
Sociology 17: 303-325.
Pessar, P. 1999. “The Role of Gender, Households, and Social Networks in the Migration Process:
A Review and Appraisal.” Chapter 3 in Hirschman, Kasinitz, and DeWind (eds.) The Handbook of
International Migration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Grasmuck, S. and P. Pessar. 1991. Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Hondagneu-Sotelo, P. 1994. Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Hondagneu and Avila. 1997. “’I'm Here, but I'm There’: The Meanings of Latina Transnational
Motherhood.” Gender and Society 11(5): 548-571.
Kanaiaupuni SM. 2000. “Reframing the migration question: An analysis of men, women, and
gender in Mexico.” Social Forces. 78 (4): 1311-1347.
TRANSNATIONALISM
Glick Schiller, Basch, Blanc-Szanton. 1992. Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration:
Race, Class, Ethnicity and Nationalism Reconsidered. New York: Academy of Sciences.
Levitt, P. 1998. “Social Remittances: Migration-Driven Local-Level Forms of Cultural Diffusion.”
International Migration Review 32(4): 926-948.
Glick Schiller, N. 1999. “Transmigrants and Nation-States: Something Old and Something New in
the U.S. Immigrant Experience.” Chapter 5 in Hirschman, Kasinitz, and DeWind (eds.) The
Handbook of International Migration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Roberts, Frank, Lozano. 1999. “Transnational migrant communities and Mexican migration to the
U.S.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 22(2): 238-266.
THE STATE
Donato, K., et al. 1992. “Stemming the Tide? Assessing the Deterrent Effects of the Immigration
Reform and Control Act.” Demography 29: 139-157.
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Buckley. 1995. “The Myth of Managed Migration: Migration Control and Market in the Soviet
Period.” Slavic Review 54(4): 896-916.
Massey, D. 1999. “International Migration at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century: The Role of
the State.” Population and Development Review 25(2): 303-322
Zolberg, A. 1999. “Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy.” Chapter 4 in Hirschman,
Kasinitz, and DeWind (eds.) The Handbook of International Migration. New York: Russell Sage
Foundation.
Cornelius, W. 2001. “Death at the Border: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of US
Immigration Control Policy.” Population and Development Review 27(4): 661-685.
Massey, Durand, Malone. 2002. Beyond Smoke & Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of
Economic Integration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Castles, S. 2004. “Why Migration Policies Fail.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 27(2): 205-227.
IMMIGRATION & LOCAL LABOR MARKETS
Card, D. 1990. “The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market.” Industrial and
Labor Relations Review 43(2): 245-57.
Frey, W. 1995. “Immigration and Internal Migration ‘Flight’ from US Metropolitan Areas: Toward
a New Demographic Balkanization.” Urban Studies 32(4): 733-757.
White and Liang. 1998. “The effect of immigration on the internal migration of the native-born
population, 1981-1990.” Population Research and Policy Review 17: 141-166.
Kritz and Gurak. 2001. “The Impact of Immigration on the Internal Migration of Natives and
Immigrants.” Demography 38(1): 133-145.
Borjas, G.J. 2003. “The Labor Demand Curve Is Sloping Downwards: Reexamining the Impact of
Immigration on the Labor Market.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(4): 1335-1374.
Card, D. 2005. “Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?” The Economic Journal 115: F300-F323.
CONSEQUENCES IN SENDING COMMUNITIES
Durand, J., W. Kandel, E.A. Parrado, and D.S. Massey. 1996. “International Migration and
Development in Mexican Communities.” Demography 33(2): 249-264.
Kanaiaupuni, S.M. and K.M. Donato. 1999. “Migradollars and Mortality: The Effects of Migration
on Infant Survival in Mexico.” Demography 36(3): 339-353.
Kapur, D. 2004. “Remittances: The New Development Mantra?” United Nations G-24 Discussion
Paper No. 29.
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Taylor, JE. 2004. “Remittances, Savings, and Development in Migrant-Sending Areas.” Chapter 9
in Massey and Taylor (eds.), International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market.
New York: Oxford University Press.
Kandel, William and Douglas S. Massey. 2002. “The Culture of Mexican Migration: A
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.” Social Forces 80(3): 981-1004.
IMMIGRATION & HEALTH
Markides, K.S. and J. Coreil. 1986. “The Health of Hispanics in the Southwestern United States: An
Epidemiologic Paradox.” Public Health Reports 101(3): 253-65.
Forbes, D. and W.P. Frisbie. 1991. “Spanish Surname and Anglo Infant Mortality Differentials
Over Half a Century.” Demography 28(4): 639-660.
Abraido-Lanza, A.F., B.P. Dohrenwend, D.S. Ng-Mak, and J.B. Turner. 1999. “The Latino
Mortality Paradox: A Test of the ‘Salmon Bias’ and Healthy Migrant Hypotheses.” American
Journal of Public Health 89(10): 1543-1548.
Nancy S.Landale, R. S. Oropesa, Bridget K. Gorman. 2000. “Migration and Infant Death:
Assimilation or Selective Migration among Puerto Ricans?” American Sociological Review 65(6):
888-909.
Hummer, Robert A, Monique Biegler, Peter B. de Turk, Douglas Forbes, W. Parker Frisbie, Ying
Hong, and Starling Pullum. 1999. "Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and Infant Mortality in the Unites
States." Social Forces 77(3): 1083-1118.
Palloni, A. and J. Morenoff. 2001. “Interpreting the Paradoxical in the Hispanic Paradox:
Demographic and Epidemiologic Approaches.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
954:140-174.
Palloni, Alberto and Elizabeth Arias. 2004. “Paradox Lost: Explaining the Hispanic Adult Mortality
Advantage.” Demography 41(3): 385-415.
Elo, I.T., C.M. Turra, B. Kestenbaum, and B.R. Ferguson. 2004. “Mortality among Elderly
Hispanics in the United States: Past Evidence and New Results.” Demography 41(1): 109-128.
ESTIMATING MIGRATION
Nicholson. 1990. “The Hidden Component in Census-Derived Migration Data: Assessing its Size
and Distribution.” Demography 27(1): 111-119.
Massey and Singer. 1995. “New Estimates of Undocumented Mexican Migration and the
Probability of Apprehension,” Demography 32(2): 203-213.
Bardsley and Storkey. 2000. “Estimating the Number of Refugees in London.” Journal of Public
Health Medicine 22(3): 406-412.
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U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. 2000. Statistical Yearbook of the U.S. Immigration
and Naturalization Service, 1998. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C.
Bean, F., R. Corona, R. Tuiran, K.A. Woodrow-Lafield and J. Van Hook. 2001. “Circular, Invisible,
and Ambiguous Migrants: Components of Difference in Estimates of the Number of Unauthorized
Mexican Migrants in the United States.” Demography 38(3): 411-422.
Edmonston and Michalowski. 2004. “International Migration.” Chapter 18 in Siegel and Swanson
(eds) The Methods and Materials of Demography. London, UK: Elsevier Academic Press.
Van Hook, Zhang, Bean, Passel. 2006. “Foreign-born Emigration: A New Approach and Estimates
Based on Matched CPS Files.” Demography 43(2): 361-382.
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