Table of Contents:
  • Ties that bind: immigration and immigrant families in the United States / Rubén G. Rumbaut
  • Immigrant generations / Leif Jensen and Yoshimi Chitose
  • Migration and the dynamics of family phenomena / Guillermina Jasso
  • Immigrant families at risk: factors that undermine chances for success / Mary C. Waters
  • The psychological experience of immigration: a developmental perspective / Cynthia García Coll and Katherine Magnuson
  • Research perspectives on constructs of change: intercultural migration and developmental transitions / Luis M. Laosa
  • Factors that impact development outcomes of immigrant children / Mary Lou de Leon Siantz
  • Immigration and sociocultural change in Mexican, Chinese, and Vietnamese American families / Raymond Buriel and Terri De Ment
  • Understanding family change across generations: problems of conceptualization and research design / Charles Hirschman
  • The concept of "bicultural families" and its implications for research on immigrant and ethnic families / Nazli Kibria
  • Asian immigrant variables and structural models of cross-cultural distress / Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky and Edward Wai Ming Lai
  • Immigrant families and public policy: a deepening divide / Michael Fix and Wendy Zimmermann
  • Whither the 1950s? the family and macroeconomic context of immigration and welfare reform in the 1990s / Suzanne M. Bianchi
  • Immigrant integration and pending legislation: observations on empirical projections / B. Lindsay Lowell
  • Immigration and the family: an overview / Nancy S. Landale.