Xavier Escandell, University of Northern Iowa
Alin M. Ceobanu, University of Florida

Abstract: This paper examines whether the stand-alone and cross-level interactive effects of individual and contextual predicting variables of anti-immigrant sentiment vary as a function of institutional differences in welfare regimes. Using data from the 2003 ISSP module, several direct and indirect measures tapping welfare state systems were created to assess the disparities in anti-immigrant sentiment across 22 Western and Eastern European countries. Results from the hierarchical multilevel models show that the mean levels of anti-immigrant sentiment are lower in those countries with high levels of public spending in social protection …

Kathryn Kopinak, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
Rosa M. Soriano Miras, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Abstract: Economic globalization has brought the movement of people and increasing transnational connections among them which may best be studied from a comparative perspective. The research presented here focuses on two comparable phases of labor migration. Firstly, the impact of both previous work experience in Mexico and gender differences are evaluated for labor migration to the United States. The second phase of the project, in which we are currently immersed, attempts to compare the Mexico – US migratory process with that from Morocco to Spain. Previous work …

Laura López-Sanders, Stanford University
Abstract: While many studies document employer preference for Latino immigrants over African Americans, few studies provide evidence on how this preference translates into changes in the ethnic composition of the labor force. This paper addresses the mechanisms that account for these changes and their effects on race and ethnic relations. Using unique ethnographic data collected in new immigrant destinations, I show how the ethnic composition of a large industrial manufacturing firm changed from being almost exclusively black and white, to becoming forty percent Latino in many departments over the course of one year. Racial dynamics along with
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Fred A. Lazin, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
Introduction: This paper examines the exercise of power by American Jews in American politics. It does so through an examination of the influence of the Soviet Jewry advocacy movement on United States refugee policies during the 1970s and 1980s. The movement consisted mostly of American Jewish organizations and individuals and operatives of an Israeli government agency, the Liaison Bureau.
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David Keyes, University of California, San Diego
Abstract: Starting in the 1990s, immigrants began to settle throughout the United States, often moving to new destinations far from the traditional receiving communities. This paper is a case study of Clark County, Ohio, which has seen its immigrant population grow rapidly in the past two decades, with many of these newcomers coming from the small town of El Saúz de Abajo in the state of Michoacán. Many in this group express a strong sense of stability in their lives in this new destination and I ask what people mean when they express this …

Monica W. Varsanyi, John Jay Collage, City University of New York
Abstract: Through an exploration of relevant legislation and court cases, this article discusses the contemporary constitution of neoliberal subjects via the devolution of select immigration powers to state and local governments by the federal government of the United States. Since the latter decades of the nineteenth century, the federal government has had plenary power over immigration, which has enabled it to treat “people as immigrants” (or as “nonpersons” falling outside of many Constitutional protections), simultaneously requiring that states and cities treat “immigrants as people” (or as persons protected by the …

Richard Jones, University of Texas, San Antonio
Leonardo de la Torre, Universidad Católica, Cochabamba (Bolivia)
Abstract: Female relatives were chatting in Don Orlando and Doña Alicia’s home in Arlington, Virginia. They had recently arrived from Santa Rosa, a village in the Valle Alto area (close to the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia). One of them approached to show us the baby she carried as a small treasure in her arms. We asked if she had brought it from Bolivia. “No,” she told us, “this one was born in the United States.” Later, at supper, Don Orlando, who divided 25 years of his life …

Xiana Bueno García, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Daniel Vono de Vilhena, Autonomous University of Barcelona
Abstract: The main goal of this study is to analyze the reproductive patterns of Latin American-born women residing in the two principal receiving countries of their migrant collective: the United States and Spain. The study was carried out by examining the existing literature and by analyzing the main indicators of fertility. We compared these indicators with those of the native population and between the collectives of each receiving country. In each case the findings show differences in the patterns with regard to intensity and timing, with only …

Wayne Cornelius, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Introduction: For the past 15 years, the United States has had a strategy of controlling unauthorized immigration from Mexico and other Latin American countries that overwhelmingly emphasized border enforcement, coupled with extremely weak worksite enforcement and no effort to reduce the unauthorized flow by increasing legal-entry opportunities, especially for low-skilled workers. Under the “prevention through deterrence” doctrine adopted by the U.S. Border Patrol in the early 1990s, illegal entries were to be prevented by a concentrated “show of force” on specific segments of the border, which, it was believed, would also …

Javier Serrano, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
Abstract: Migrants from rural Mexico usually move abroad with the idea to return once they have improved their economic situation. Although they do not always go back, Mexican migrants often plan their return before leaving. In any case, the imagined return persists for a long time in their minds. This paper analyzes the ways in which rural migrants from southern Veracruz and western Mexico imagine a better future, a future only made possible by migration. Therefore, these powerful images of a more prosperous tomorrow inspire migrants to move abroad. As an …