Post-1965 Immigration to the United States: Structural Determinants

by Philip Q. Yang

Why do countries differ substantially in the size of legal permanent immigration to the United States since 1965, even after the repeal of the discriminatory national origins quota system? The author demonstrates that development theory, world system theory and immigrants' social network theory all contain partial truths, but not one of them captures the entire immigration process. Here cross-national differences in the size of post-1965 immigration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275950018
• ISBN13: 9780275950019
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"