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CCIS scholars publish books on a wide variety of topics related to immigration. CCIS also publishes its own research, distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers or co-published with other university and commercial presses. For further information about these books and to order them, please click on the names or covers of the books.

Políticas de control migratorio. Estudio comparado de España y EE.UU.
(distributed by Edicions Bellaterra)

Edited by Antonio Izquierdo and Wayne A. Cornelius

Published: 2012, 400 pages, paperback

Is Immigration Necessary? Work, Growth, and the Future in Japan and the United States
(distributed by American Behavioral Scientist)

Edited by John Skrentny and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California – San Diego

Published: August 2012, Volume 56, Number 58

Reaching for a New Deal
(distributed by Russell Sage Foundation)

Edited by Theda Skocpol and Lawrence R. Jacobs; contains John Skrentny’s chapter “Obama’s Immigration Reform: A Tough Sell for a Grand Bargain”

Published: August 2011, 320 pages, paperback

Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Economic and Social Impact of a Global Phenomenon
(distributed by Ashgate Publishing Group)

Edited by Daphne Halkias, University of California, San Diego, USA; Paul Thurman, Columbia University, USA, Nicholas Harkiolakis, National Metsovio Polytechnic University, Greece and Sylva M. Caracatsanis, University of Exeter, UK

Published: December 2010, 324 pages, hardback

Recession Without Borders: Mexican Migrants Confront the Economic Downturn
(distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers)

Edited by David Scott FitzGerald, Rafael Alarcón Acosta, and Leah Muse-Orlinoff

Published: November 2010, 250 pages, paperback

Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States
(distributed by Stanford University Press)

Edited by Monica W. Varsanyi

Published: July 2010, 320 pages, paperback

Mexican Migration and the US Economic Crisis: A Transnational Perspective
(distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers)

Edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, David FitzGerald, Pedro Lewin, and Leah Muse-Orlinoff

Published: 2009, 275 pages, paperback

A Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages Its Migration
(distributed by the University of California Press)

By David FitzGerald

Published: 2009, 244 pages, paperback

Diasporic Homecomings: Ethnic Return Migration in Comparative Perspective
(distributed by Stanford University Press)

Edited by Takeyuki Tsuda

Published: July 2009, 288 pages, paperback

Migration from the Mexican Mixteca: A Transnational Community in Oaxaca and California
(distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers)

Edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, David FitzGerald, Jorge Hernández-Díaz, and Scott Borger

Published: 2009, 268 pages, paperback

Four Generations of Norteños: New Research from the Cradle of Mexican Migration
(distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers)

Co-edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, David FitzGerald, and Scott Borger

Published: 2009, 250 pages, paperback

Mayan Journeys: The New Migration from Yucatán to the United States
(distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers)

Co-edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, David S. FitzGerald, and Pedro Lewin Fischer

Published: 2007, 275 pages, paperback

Impacts of Border Enforcement on Mexican Migration: The View from Sending Communities
(distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers)

Co-edited by Wayne A. Cornelius and Jessa M. Lewis

Published: 2007, 185 pages, paperback

Local Citizenship in Recent Countries of Immigration: Japan in Comparative Perspective
(a co-publication of Lexington Books and CCIS)

Edited by Takeyuki Tsuda

Published: 2006, 306 pages, paperback

Muslim Women in Southern Spain: Stepdaughters of Al-Andalus

By Gunther Dietz and Nadia El-Shohoumi

Published: 2005, 169 pages, paperback

Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective, 2nd edition, revised and expanded
(a co-publication of Stanford University Press and CCIS)

Edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, Takeyuki Tsuda, Philip L. Martin, and James F. Hollifield.

Published: 2004, 550 pages, paperback

Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the United States

Edited by Jonathan Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado

Published: 2004, 525 pages, paperback

The Transnational Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy

By Marc R. Rosenblum

Published: 2004, 127 pages, paperback

Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational Perspective
(published through Columbia University Press)

By Takeyuki Tsuda

Published: 2003, 432 pages, paperback