Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. THEORETICAL OVERVIEW -- The Origins of Labor Migration -- Stability of Migration -- The Uses of Labor Migration -- Immigrant Adaptation -- Conclusion -- 2. IMMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES, 1890-1979 -- Immigrant Labor, 1890-1914 -- Japanese and Jews -- The Interim Period -- Contemporary Immigration, 1946-1979 -- Summary -- 3. CONTRASTING HISTORIES: CUBAN AND MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES -- Political and Economic Immigrants -- Mexican Immigration -- Cuban Immigration -- The Research Design -- Sample-to-Population Comparisons -- Indices -- 4. PRELUDE TO IMMIGRATION: THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF CUBAN AND MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS -- Mexican Development and the Origins of Emigration -- The Stability and Directionality of Mexican Migration -- The Cuban Revolution and the Origins of Its Refugees -- The Stability and Directionality of the Refugee Outflow -- Discussion -- 5. THE FIRST SIX YEARS -- Residential Locations -- Social Adaptation -- Labor-Market Participation and Income -- Discussion -- 6. THE CUBAN ENCLAVE IN MIAMI -- Modes of Incorporation -- Insertion in the Cuban Enclave -- Labor-Market Returns in Three Sectors -- Conclusion -- 7. THE SECONDARY LABOR MARKET: ECONOMIC AND OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS -- Mexicans in the American Labor Market -- Labor-Market Returns in Two Sectors -- Modes of Structural Incorporation: Cubans and Mexicans -- Summary -- 8. AMERICA IN THE EYES OF THE IMMIGRANTS -- Perceptions and Attitudes: Descriptive Findings -- Perceptions of U.S. Society and Discrimination -- Causal Hypotheses -- Causal Models -- Conclusion -- 9. REACHING OUT: THE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS OF IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES -- A Profile of Relationships over Time -- Affiliation and Its Determinants -- Ethnicity of Social Relations -- Conclusion.

10. CONCLUSION: IMMIGRATION THEORY AND ITS PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS -- Theoretical Controversies -- Enclaves and Middleman Minorities -- Class and Ethnicity -- Future Research -- Practical Implications -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.