CONTRIBUTORS NANCY FONER is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. DANIEL BEUNZA is assistant professor of economics and business at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. JENNIFER L. BRYAN is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Yale University. MARGARET M. CHIN is assistant professor of sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York. MONISHA DAS GUPTA is assistant professor of ethnic studies and women’s studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. KAI ERIKSON is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies at Yale University. SANDRA GARCIA is a doctoral candidate in social work at Columbia University. IRWIN GARFINKEL is Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems at the Columbia University School of Social Work. MELANIE D. HILDEBRANDT is assistant professor of sociology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. PHILIP KASINITZ is professor of sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College of the City University of New York. NEERAJ KAUSHAL is assistant professor of social work at the Columbia University School of Social Work. viii Contributors WILLIAM KORNBLUM is professor of sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. STEVEN LANG is an independent scholar who received his doctorate in sociology from the City University of New York Graduate Center. BINH POK is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. FRANCESCA POLLETTA is associate professor of sociology at Columbia University. JULIA ROTHENBERG recently received her doctorate in sociology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. KAREN SEELEY teaches at Columbia University and Barnard College and has a private psychotherapy practice. GREGORY SMITHSIMON is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Columbia University. DAVID STARK is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Columbia University and external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. JULIEN TEITLER is assistant professor of social work at the Columbia University School of Social Work. LESLEY WOOD is assistant professor of sociology at York University.