Alejandro Portes and Alejandro Rivas examine how young immigrants are adapting to life in
the United States. They begin by noting the existence of two distinct pan-ethnic populations: …

This paper reviews the origins and definitions of social capital in the writings of Bourdieu,
Loury, and Coleman, among other authors. It distinguishes four sources of social capital and …

This article reviews conventional theories about different aspects of labor migration: its
origins, stability over time, and patterns of migrant settlement. For each of these aspects, we …

The Underground Economy is the thirtieth Annual Public Lecture Series organized by the
Department of Economics at Western Michigan University. In this series the concerns of …

Winner, 1995 American Sociological Association Robert E. Park Award? Projecting fantasies
of wealth and excess, Miami," America's Riviera," occupies a unique place in our national …

Blau and Duncan have presented a path model of the occupational attainment process of
American adult male population. This basic model begins with two variables describing the …

" Ethnicities is a timely and important book. Rumbaut and Portes have brought together a
group of stimulating essays by leading scholars in immigration studies that deal with issues at …

" Portes suggests that immigration constitutes an especially appropriate Mertonian'strategic
research site'for economic sociology in that it provides very good opportunities for …

This paper examines the informal economy and its relationship to commonly held theories
of industrial development. Although these theories stem from very different intellectual …

Recent research on stratification has moved away from traditional concerns with description
of mobility rates and toward explanation of the processes by which educational and …