Immigration and opportunity : race, ethnicity, and employment in the United States / Frank D. Bean and Stephanie Bell-Rose, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Immigration, spatial and economic change, and African American employment / Frank D. Bean, Jennifer Van Hook, and Mark A. Fossett -- Mexican immigration, occupational niches, and labor-market competition: evidence from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta, 1970 to 1990 / Michael J. Rosenfeld and Marta Tienda -- Ethnic concentrations and labor-market opportunities / Franklin D. Wilson -- Entrepreneurship and economic progress in the 1990s: a comparative analysis of immigrants and African Americans / Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou -- Minority niches and immigrant enclaves in New York and Los Angeles: trends and impacts / John R. Logan and Richard D. Alba -- West Indians and African Americans at work: structural differences and cultural stereotypes / Mary C. Waters -- Network, bureaucracy, and exclusion: recruitment and selection in an immigrant metropolis / Roger Waldinger -- Newly emerging Hispanic communities in the United States: a spatial analysis of settlement patterns, in-migration fields, and social receptivity / James J. Johnson Jr., Karen D. Johnson-Webb, and Walter C. Farrell Jr. -- New black migration patterns in the United States: are they affected by recent immigration? / William H. Frey -- The impact of immigration on residential segregation / Michael J. White and Jennifer E. Glick -- How immigration and intermarriage affect the racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population / Barry Edmonston and Jeffrey S. Passel.