Population

Detailed Estimates of the Overstay Population Residing in the United States in 2017

These three tables show detailed information about the overstay population residing in the United States in 2017. The tables augment the report on overstays released by CMS on April 24, 2019.

Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change

Grace Yukich of Quinnipiac University reviews Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change by Janelle S. Wong. Janelle S. Wong examines how immigration from Asia and Latin America reshapes the demographic composition of the U.S. While some analysts...

Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City

Arturo Ignacio Sánchez of Barnard College reviews Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City by Arlene Dávila. Arlene Dávila brilliantly considers the cultural politics of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino experience in New...

Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas

Timothy Meagher of Catholic University of America reviews Land! Irish Pioneers in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas by Graham Davis. Graham Davis tells an Irish-Texan story of the search for land by recounting the experiences of the original empresarios John McMullen,...

Irregular Migration. The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility

Thomas Faist of the University of Toronto reviews Irregular Migration. The Dilemmas of Transnational Mobility by Bill Jordan and Franck Düvell. Bill Jordan and Franck Düvell provide a theoretical framework for the analysis of mobility and border crossings in an...

Migration in European History

Barbara Schmitter Heisler of Gettysburg College reviews Migration in European History by Klaus Bade. Klaus Bade describes that since the fall of the Iron Curtain, migration has become a major cause for concern in many European countries, but migrations to,...

Transnational Politics: Turks and Kurds in Germany

Nedim Ögelman of University of Texas at Austin reviews Transnational Politics: Turks and Kurds in Germany by Eva Østergaard-Nielsen. Eva Østergaard-Nielsen uses the Turkish and Kurdish communities in Germany as a case study, offering a unique analysis of trans-state political loyalties...

Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927

Betty Lee Sung of the City College of New York reviews Seeking Modernity in China’s Name: Chinese Students in the United States, 1900–1927 by Weili Ye. Weili Ye discusses how the students who came to the United States in the...

Toward a Theory of Immigration

David P. Lindstrom of Brown University reviews Toward a Theory of Immigration by Peter C. Meilaender. Peter Meilaender states that changes in the global political order have combined with dominant trends in liberal political philosophy to spark increasing scholarly criticism of...

Don’t Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese

Lucie Cheng of Shih Hsin University reviews Don’t Leave Home: Migration and the Chinese by Wang Gungwu. Wang Gungwu discusses that the Chinese overseas comprise the 25 million or more who left China to settle abroad, and their families and...