Social Science Research Council
Recent Publications
Published on: Jan 07, 2004
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Books and articles that result from Council activities are generally published by commercial or university presses or in scholarly journals; only occasionally does the Council serve as a publisher. The publications listed here may be obtained either directly from the publishers (click on the title for a link to the publisher's website) or the SSRC website as indicated. Titles listed here are the products of Program-sponsored activities.
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Caroline Brettell ed., Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007
The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making proccesses among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can both unite and divide. The individual scholars contributing to this volume model, deploy, and explain notions of "borders" and "boundaries" in various ways, but collectively they emphasize the fluidity of racial and ethnic identities that are shaped, negotiated, and contested in specific contexts and situations. Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries also captures the range of spaces in which ethnicity and race become salient--the university, the immigrant enclave, the detention center, the work place, the nightclub, and even the trans-Atlantic passage. This interdisciplinary work features essays on a diverse range of immigrant populations from past to present and will interest scholars from across disciplines.
The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making proccesses among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can both unite and divide. The individual scholars contributing to this volume model, deploy, and explain notions of "borders" and "boundaries" in various ways, but collectively they emphasize the fluidity of racial and ethnic identities that are shaped, negotiated, and contested in specific contexts and situations. Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries also captures the range of spaces in which ethnicity and race become salient--the university, the immigrant enclave, the detention center, the work place, the nightclub, and even the trans-Atlantic passage. This interdisciplinary work features essays on a diverse range of immigrant populations from past to present and will interest scholars from across disciplines.
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Alejandro Portes and Josh DeWind eds., Repensando las migraciones: Nuevas perspectivas teóricas y empíricas. Zacatecas, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Migración, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, 2006.
This volume is a translation of a recent International Migration Review special issue on “Conceptual and Methodological Developments in the Study of International Migration.” Organized by the SSRC Migration Program, in collaboration with the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University, and co-edited by the Program’s director, Josh DeWind, it describes research advances related to a number of selected themes on migration in both Europe and the United States.
This volume is a translation of a recent International Migration Review special issue on “Conceptual and Methodological Developments in the Study of International Migration.” Organized by the SSRC Migration Program, in collaboration with the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University, and co-edited by the Program’s director, Josh DeWind, it describes research advances related to a number of selected themes on migration in both Europe and the United States.
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Gabaccia, Donna, Katharine M. Donato, Jennifer Holdaway, Martin Manalansan, IV, and Patricia R. Pessar, eds., International Migration Review, special issue on “Gender and Migration Revisited,” Vol. 40, Spring 2006.
This special issue of the International Migration Review presents the findings of the SSRC’s Working Group on Gender and Migration. The study of immigration and migration has become more interdisciplinary, and women-centered research has shifted toward, and to some degree has been supplanted by, the analysis of gender. This issue is therefore a multidisciplinary review that focuses on gender rather than on women, and includes surveys of anthropology, sociology and sexuality studies undertaken by scholars whose geographical specialties reach beyond the United States to Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe.
This special issue of the International Migration Review presents the findings of the SSRC’s Working Group on Gender and Migration. The study of immigration and migration has become more interdisciplinary, and women-centered research has shifted toward, and to some degree has been supplanted by, the analysis of gender. This issue is therefore a multidisciplinary review that focuses on gender rather than on women, and includes surveys of anthropology, sociology and sexuality studies undertaken by scholars whose geographical specialties reach beyond the United States to Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe.
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Karen I. Leonard, Alex Stepick, Manuel A. Vasquez, and Jennifer Holdaway, eds., Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America.
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Alejandro Portes and Josh DeWind, eds., International Migration Review, special issue on “Conceptual and Methodological Developments in the Study of International Migration,” Vol. 38, Fall 2004.
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Nancy Foner and George Fredrickson, eds., Not Just Black and White. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
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Donna R. Gabaccia and Colin Wayne Leach, eds., Immigrant Life in the U.S.: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2004.
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Estudios migratorios latinoamericanos, 17, 52, 2003. Special issue of a Latin American peer reviewed journal based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that specializes in migration research—featuring seven essays that were presented at the SSRC conference on “Migrations, Borders and Diasporas in the Americas,” held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in June 2003.
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Peggy Levitt, Josh DeWind, and Steven Vertovec, eds., "Transnational Migration: International Perspectives," special issue of International Migration Review, Vol. 37, no. 3, 2003.
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Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf, eds., E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.
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N. Foner, R. Rumbaut, S. Gold, eds., Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2000. (A revision and major expansion of the special issues of the American Behavioral Scientist mentioned above).
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Josh DeWind, Charles Hirschman, and Philip Kasinitz, eds., "The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience." New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999. (Winner of the American Sociological Association’s 2000 Thomas and Znaniecki Award for the best book in the field of international migration). (Revised papers from the conference Becoming American/America Becoming, providing a comprehensive overview of the field of U.S. immigration studies).
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Ruben Rumbaut, Nancy Foner and Steven J. Gold, eds., "Transformations: Immigration and Immigration Research in the United States," special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, 1999, Vol. 42 (9). (A set of research papers by program fellows and more general descriptions of disciplinary approaches to immigration studies by more senior scholars prepared for the first conference of program fellows).
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Josh DeWind, Philip Kasinitz, and Charles Hirschman, eds., "Immigrant Adaptation and Native-Born Responses in the Making of Americans,"International Migration Review, Vol. 31, 1997. (A special issue with a subset of revised papers from the above mentioned conference).
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Josh DeWind and Charles Hirschman, "Becoming American/America Becoming: A Conference on International Migration to the United States," in Items, Vol. 50, nos. 2-3, 1996.
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