Asian and Pacific Islander Migration to the United States: A Model of New Global Patterns

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This analysis of contemporary Asian and Pacific Islander immigration to the United States offers a synthesis of findings on global migration. It presents a series of principles regarding new double-step patterns in population movements at the end of the 20th century. This discussion of new paths and modes of world migration is intended for a broad, inter-disciplinary audience of students, teachers, and professionals in ethnic studies, US history, Asian and Asian-American studies, studies relating to the Pacific Rim, sociology, demographics, and international relations. The study of multi-level and multi-directional global migration opens with an analysis of world migration theory, macro and micro factors in international migration, and a review of research about recent migration patterns. Next, it offers propositions about factors that have affected decisions of peoples to move elsewhere, their adjustment to new countries, their return migrations, and the impact of international migration. Asian and Pacific Island immigration to the United States is examined along with extensive data based on US immigration records. This fourth wave of immigration to the United States is then analysed in detail. Accompanying this data and analysis is a model of double stepwise international migration, extremely useful for those studying the intricacies of global patterns of migration. Barkan concludes with other data on mobility variables.

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.,."... I would recommend this entire book to anyone interested in migration issues and the first five to seventy-five pages to anyone who would like a brief overview of migration issues. The first pages are well documented and could serve as a good introduction to migration issues....Barkan's extensive cross-tabulations (more than twenty-two tables) of INS data should be of great intrest to migration specialists."-Explorations in Sights and Sounds
...... I would recommend this entire book to anyone interested in migration issues and the first five to seventy-five pages to anyone who would like a brief overview of migration issues. The first pages are well documented and could serve as a good introduction to migration issues....Barkan's extensive cross-tabulations (more than twenty-two tables) of INS data should be of great intrest to migration specialists.-Explorations in Sights and Sounds
..."... I would recommend this entire book to anyone interested in migration issues and the first five to seventy-five pages to anyone who would like a brief overview of migration issues. The first pages are well documented and could serve as a good introduction to migration issues....Barkan's extensive cross-tabulations (more than twenty-two tables) of INS data should be of great intrest to migration specialists."-Explorations in Sights and Sounds

Author Bio

ELLIOTT ROBERT BARKAN, is Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at California State University at San Bernardino. He is the author of California's New Americans: Analyzing History with Computers (1988), Portal of Portals: Speaking of the United States 'as Though It Were New York'--and Vice Versa (1991), New Origins, New Homelands: Immigration to Selected Sunbelt Cities Since 1965 (1991), and The Immigrant and American Society, 1920s-1990s (forthcoming, 1993). He has written at some length on immigration and naturalization trends in the United States.