Roger Waldinger

Department of Sociology
UCLA
Spring Quarter 2007

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION 236B: WINTER 2007

Preliminary Syllabus
February 14, 2007

This course is the second part of a two-quarter, comprehensive overview of the

key current theoretical and empirical debates in the study of international migration. The
course has two longer term goals: (a) the general objective of encouraging students to
undertake research in the field of migration research; and (b) the more specific objective
of preparing students in sociology to take the field exam in international migration, which
will be based on Sociology 236ab, and will be given in the summer.

The field of international migration is, perhaps, unique in its interdisciplinary and
methodologically pluralist nature: stretching from the demography and economics of
migration, through political science, sociological and geographical approaches, to the
ethnography and oral history of migrants. Migration is also a crucial research site for
exploring the possibility of doing sociology beyond the bounded nation-state-society
focus of most sociological research. And, while opening the door to a crucial dimension
of globalization, the comparative study of immigration and immigrants also offers opens
up fresh perspectives on conceptions of nationhood, citizenship and the state.

Course requirements

The basic requirement is to do the readings. There are plenty of them and you
need to stay on top of the material at all times. The teaching style will be to have a
structured discussion. This means that everyone participates; those who dont raise hands
can expect to be called on, in every class.

Starting with session number two, I will ask each student to write a weekly memo
addressing key issues in the readings. These memos should be posted to the class web
site by noon on the Thursday, prior to our class meeting. Although the memos will be
ungraded, they will help shape our discussions.

There will be a comprehensive, take-home final, due at the end of exam period.

Books for purchase:

Richard Alba/Victor Nee, Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and
Contemporary Immigration, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003
Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat (U of Illinois Press, 2005)
Ruud Koopmans et al, Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in
Europe (U of Minnesota Press, 2006)
Donna Gabaccia, Italys Many Diasporas (U of Washington Press, 2000)
On-line materials:
Indicated by * or by site-specific url

Other readings:
Accessible at graduate reserves

April 6: Session 1: No class (instructor out of town)

April 13: Session 2: (Guest co-instructor: Danielle Juteau, Sociology, University of

Montreal)

Part 1: Assimilation and Integration: Concepts, Theories, Approaches

Milton Gordon (1965) Assimilation in American Life, ch.3

Richard Alba/Victor Nee, Remaking the Mainstream Chapters 1 and 2
Rogers Brubaker (2001) The return of assimilation? Changing perspectives on
immigration and its sequels in France, Germany and the United States, Ethnic
and Racial Studies, V. 24, 4; available on line through UCLA libraries at:
http://fidelio.ingentaselect.com/vl=902423/cl=41/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/catchwor
d/routledg/01419870/v24n4/s1/p531
Michael Banton (2001) National integration in France and Britain, Journal of Ethnic
and Migration Studies, V. 27, 1; available on line through UCLA libraries at:
http://fidelio.ingentaselect.com/vl=15123988/cl=36/nw=1/fm=docpdf/rpsv/catch
word/carfax/1369183x/v27n1/s9/p151
Roger Waldinger, Transforming Foreigners into Americans, Pp. 137-48 in Mary
Waters and Reed Ueda, eds., The New Americans, Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
2007.

http://www.soc.ucla.edu/faculty/waldinger/pdf/B9.pdf

Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou, 1993, "The New Second Generation: Segmented
Assimilation and its Variants among Post-1965 Immigrant Youth," Annals No. 530: 74-
96. (available via UCLA libraries)

Part 2: Comparative perspectives: France

Daniele Juteau, Forbidding Ethnicities In French Sociological Thought: The Difficult

Circulation Of Knowledge And Ideas, Mobilities, November 2006; Volume 1 No. 3
Pages 391 409 (available via UCLA library)
 Green, Nancy L., Le Melting-Pot: Made in America, Produced in France. The
Journal of American History 86.3 (1999). Available online at:
http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/86.3/green.html.

Gerard Noiriel, French Melting Pot, Chapter 1

April 20: Session 3: Comparative studies of assimilation and integration: historical

patterns and past/present comparisons
a. past/present comparisons theoretical perspectives
Nancy Green, The Comparative Method and Poststructural Structuralism - New
Perspectives for Migration Studies, Journal of American Ethnic history, V 13:4
(1994:Summer), available on line
Nancy Foner, Then and Now or Then to Now: Immigration to New York in
Contemporary and Historical Perspective, Journal of American Ethnic History,
Volume 25, Number 2-3/Winter-Spring 2006, available on line
Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat, Introduction
Donna Gabaccia, "Is Everywhere Nowhere? Italys Transnational Migrations and
the Immigrant Paradigm of American History Special Issue on Transnational History,"
Journal of American History 86,3 (December 1999): 1115-1134, available on-line

b. European experiences
Gerard Noiriel, The French Melting-Pot, 4-6
Leo Lucassen, The Immigrant Threat, Part 1

April 27: Session 4: Comparative studies of assimilation and integration: historical

patterns and past/present comparisons (continued)
c. New World experiences

Alba and Nee, Chapters 3 and 4

Donna Gabaccia, Italys Many Diasporas, Chapters 5 & 6
Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters, Intermarriage Then and Now: Race, Generation and
the Changing Meaning of Marriage in Foner and Fredrickson, Beyond Black and White.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.

Richard Alba and Nancy Denton, The old and new landscapes of diversity: Residential
patterns of immigrant minorities in Foner and Fredrickson, Beyond Black and White.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
Joel Perlmann, Italians Then, Mexicans Now: Immigrant Origins and Second-Generation
Progress, 1890-2000, New York: Russell Sage, 2005, chapter 1

Josa Moya, Cousins and Strangers: Spanish Immigrants in Buenos Aires, 1850-1930,
Berkeley: UC Press 1998, Chapter 5

Samuel Bailey, Italians in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York
City, 1870-1914, Ithaca: Cornell, 1999, Chapters 4 & 9

Optional (but highly recommended): Portes and Gratton reviews of Perlmann, on course
website

May 4: Session 5: Second generations, Past and Present: US

Rubn Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes (2001) Legacies, Chapters 5, 8, conclusion

Alba and Nee, relevant chapter
Ewa Morawska, For Bread with Butter, Chapter 8;
Mary Waters, Black Identities, Ch. 8;
Douglas Monroy, Rebirth: Mexicans in Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the
Great Depression, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999, Chapter 4;
Robert Smith, Mexican New York, (Berkeley: University of California Press,, chapters 6
&7
Philip Kasinitz, Race, Assimilation and Second Generations, Past and Present.
in George Fredrickson and Nancy Foner (editors). Beyond Black and White. New York:
Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
Perlmann, chapters 2 and 3
Ted Mouw and Yu Xie, Bilingualism and Academic Achievement of Asian Immigrants:
Accomodation With or Without Assimilation, American Sociological Review, V. 64
(April 1999)

May 11: Session 6: Second generation Europe

Leo Lucassen, Immigrant Threat, Part II

International Migration Review, special edition on The Future Of The Second

Generation: The Integration Of Migrant Youth In Six European Countries: pp. 965
986, 10391064, 10911119

Agnes Van Zanten, Schooling immigrants in France in the 1990's: Success or failure of
the Republican model of integration? Anthropology and Education Quarterly 28
(1997): 351-374.

Roxanne Silbermann, Richard Alba, and Irene Fournier, Segmented Assimilation in

France? Discrimination in the labour market against the second generation, Ethnic
and Racial Studies, V. 30, 1 January 2007: 1-27.
May 18 Session 7: Transnationalism and Diasporas: Theoretical Perspectives

Armstrong, John A. 1976. Proletarian and Mobilized Diasporas. The American

Political Science Review. Vol. 70, No. 2. (June), pp. 393-408.; available via
UCLA library
Linda Basch, et al, Nations Unbound, New York: Gordon and Breach, 1994, chapters 1
and 2
Nina Glick Schiller, Transnationality
Portes, Alejandro, Luis E. Guarnizo, and Patricia Landolt. 1999. "The Study of
Transnationalism: Pitfalls and Promise of an Emergent Research Field." Ethnic and
Racial Studies 22(2):217-37. (available via UCLA library)
Rogers Brubaker, The Diaspora Diaspora, Ethnic and Racial Studies , V. 28, 1, 2005.
(available via UCLA library)

Roger Waldinger and David Fitzgerald, Transnationalism in Question, American

Journal of Sociology

Wimmer, Andreas and Nina Glick-Schiller. 2002. Methodological Nationalism and

Beyond: Nationstate Building, Migration and the Social Sciences. Global Networks, V.
2, 4; available via UCLA library

May 25: Session 8: Transnationalism and Diasporas: Historical and Comparative

Perspectives and Experiences

Guest co-instructor: Donna Gabaccia

Donna Gabaccia, Weighing Diaspora on the Scales of History, on course website

Donna Gabaccia, Introduction to Italian Workers of the World, accessible on line at:
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/gabaccia/intro.html)

*Morawska, Ewa. 2001. Immigrants, Transnationalism, and Ethnicization: A

Comparison of This Great Wave and the Last. pp. 175-212 in E Pluribus Unum?
Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation,
edited by Gary Gerstle and John H. Mollenkopf. New York: Russell Sage.
Ostergaard-Nielsen, Eva. 2001. Transnational Political Practices and the Receiving
State: Turks and Kurds in Germany and the Netherlands. Global Networks. V. I,
3: 261-82; available on-line through UCLA library
Riccio, Bruno, From 'ethnic group' to 'transnational community'? Senegalese migrants'
ambivalent experiences and multiple trajectories, Journal of Ethnic and
Migration Studies, Volume 27 Number 4 October 2001
John Bowen, Beyond Migration: Islam as a Transnational Public Space, Journal of
Ethnic and Migraiton Studies, V 30, 5, 2004

Fiona Adamson, "Displacement, Diaspora Mobilization, and Transnational Cycles of

Political Violence," in John Tirman, ed., Maze of Fear: Security and Migration After
September 11th (New York: New Press, 2004): 45-58.

June 1: Session 9: Transnationalism and Diasporas: The Americas

Portes, Alejandro; Haller, William J; Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo. 2002. Transnational

Entrepreneurs: An Alternative Form of Immigrant Economic
Adaptation.American Sociological Review. V67(N2):278-298.
Guarnizo, Luis E. 2001. "On the Political Participation of Transnational Migrants: Old
Practices and New Trends." Pp. 213-63 in E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and
Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation, eds Gary Gerstle
and John H. Mollenkopf. New York: Russell Sage.
Robert Smith, Mexican New York, (Berkeley: University of California Press,2006),
chapters 2 & 3
Jones-Correa, chapter 7
UNDP El Salvador, Una Mirada al Nuevo Nosotros:
http://www.desarrollohumano.org.sv/migraciones/2005espanol.htm, chapters 4,6,9 or
10 or English-language summary:
http://www.desarrollohumano.org.sv/migraciones/2005ingles.htm

June 8: Session 10 Politics and Mobilization: Europe

Ruud Koopmans et al, Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in

Europe

Make-up session Exam week? Politics and Mobilization: The United States

TBA