"If Marx, Weber, and Durkheim were alive at the dawn of the 21st Century "Legacies is the first book they would have to read to understand just what is at stake in the new immigration. This elegant book--theoretically precise, empirically robust, and analytically savvy--will become the standard by which all subsequent scholarship on the sociology of immigration will be measured. I am buying an extra copy today to send to the new President of the United States."--Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Professor and Co-Director, The Harvard Immigration Projects, Harvard University ""Legacies is an indispensable guide to understanding how the children of today's immigrants will become the Americans of the 21st Century. For both scholars and the public, it should be essential reading, for it explains why today's approaches to ethnic incorporation will not only fail, but will backfire, yielding a second generation that is "less assimilated than it might otherwise be."--Doug Massey, co-author of "Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium"Using a unique storehouse of information, and telling a story with analytic precision and grace, Portes and Rumbaut provide a glimpse into the future that is now. "Legacies is an important book, one that should be widely and carefully read."--Roger Waldinger, author of "Still the Promised City? African Americans and New Immigrants in PostIndustrial New York ""Legacies demonstrates that there is more than one immigrant experience, and more than one second generation. It is a path-setting study, because the diversity among the most recent newcomers, and the varied ties and discontinuities between them and their children,will be the key to understanding race and ethnic relations in this country in the 21st Century."--John Logan, co-author of "Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place "Portes and Rumbaut allow the diverse voices of the new second-generation immigrants to speak, both i
