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.Rumbaut.Legacies: The Story ofthe Immigrant Second Generation.Berkeley and Los Angeles:University of California Press; New York: Russell Sage Founda-tion, 2001.This study reports on a series of surveys of immigrant childrenand their parents conducted between 1992 and 1996 in Miami,Florida, and San Diego, California.It uses interview data andschool records to provide an overview of the New Americans. The book emphasizes segmented assimilation and its determi-nants, how to measure making it in the United States, immi-grants outlooks on the United States, language and ethnic iden-tities, the role of schools and education on the psychology of thesecond generation, and the causes and consequences of schoolachievement or failure. , eds.Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America.2vols.New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.These two volumes present the findings of an extensive examina-tion of the political incorporation of second-generation immi-grants.These volumes make clear that, in the editors view, al-though assimilation was in the past a relatively homogeneouslinear process, now it is a segmented one.Pozzetta, George, ed.Contemporary Immigration and AmericanSociety.New York: Garland Publishing, 1991.The volume is the last in a series of twenty relating to immigra-tion history.It is somewhat spotty and varied in its quality andrelevance to contemporary society.It covers many groups onewould expect to see: Filipinos, Mexicans, Koreans, Haitians, His-panics, Cubans, and Vietnamese.Yet some groups one might lookfor are puzzlingly absent: Cambodians, Laotians, Chinese, Indi-ans, Canadians, and Russians.No attention is paid to the influxduring the 1980s from Ireland or eastern Europe.The collection s 230 Print and Nonprint Resourcestwenty-three articles, drawn from seventeen journals, provide auseful cross-disciplinary perspective.Because the editor selectedonly previously published articles rather than original essays, thevolume s ability to make a significant contribution to the litera-ture is limited.Devoid of any post-IRCA perspective, it is alsolimited in its contribution toward new methodologies and inter-pretations relevant to contemporary U.S.society.Reimers, David.Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comesto America.2nd ed., New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.One of the foremost U.S.historians of immigration examinespost-1965 and particularly post-1980s immigration, including theimpact of IRCA (1986) and IMMACT (1990) and the unforeseenconsequences of these laws.Looking at the new third-worldcoming to America, the book s assessment of these laws is thatthey are less restrictive in their impact than their opponents sug-gested.Sayer, Lucy E.Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and theShaping of Modern Immigration Law.Chapel Hill: University ofNorth Carolina Press, 1995.This volume presents an impressive examination of the laws na-tional, state, and local used to restrict Chinese immigration tothe United States and Chinese immigrants battle to overcometheir discriminatory impact.Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy (SCIRP).Final Report.Washington, DC: U.S.Government Printing Office,1981.The final report of the SCIRP laid the groundwork for what be-came the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA),with its employer sanctions and amnesty provisions, as well asfor expanded provisions for seasonal agricultural workers.Simcox, David.Measuring the Fallout: The Cost of the IRCAAmnesty after Ten Years.Washington, DC: Center for Immigra-tion Studies, 1997.An extensive examination of all of the costs attributable to the le-galization program of the 1986 IRCA, this work fuels the calls by theCenter for Immigration Studies for strictly limiting immigrationand its opposition to new proposals for another amnesty program. Books and Government Reports 231 .U.S.Immigration in the 1980s: Reappraisal and Reform.Boulder, CO: Westview Press; Washington, DC: Center for Immi-gration Studies, 1985.This collection of sixteen original essays by outstanding immi-gration scholars from various fields surveys current literature onimmigration and its effects on the United States and on the prob-lems or advantages immigration brings to a rapidly changing so-ciety.Its major topics include the effects on U.S.workers, nationalunity, California as the nation s immigrant laboratory, the demo-graphics of displacement, and approaches to a more rational, en-forceable immigration policy.Singh, Jaswinder, and Kolyani Gopal.Americanization of NewImmigrants.Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2002.This book discusses what new immigrants to the United Statesneed to know to adapt.Stedman, Stephen J., and Fred Tanner, eds.Refugee Manipula-tions: War, Politics, and the Abuse of Human Suffering.Washing-ton, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003.This volume examines why and how armed groups manipulaterefugees and how and why international actors assist in their ma-nipulation.Tomasi, Lydio, ed.In Defense of the Alien.New York: Center forMigration Studies.These annual volumes collect the essays and papers presented atthe annual Center for Migration Studies National Conference onImmigration Law, held in Washington, D.C.Each volume con-tains essays from leading government officials, lawyers, scholars,and immigration-policy practitioners focused on the issues andtopics discussed at the convention.Ueda, Reed.Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History.Boston: Bedford Books, St
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