This review examines research on the assimilation of immigrant groups. We review research
on four primary benchmarks of assimilation: socioeconomic status, spatial concentration …

Over the past four decades, immigration has increased the racial and ethnic diversity in the
United States. Once a mainly biracial society with a large white majority and relatively small …

New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles have long been shaped by immigration. These
gateway cities have traditionally been assumed to be the major flashpoints in American …

For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those
from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain …

Unlike the wave of immigration that came through Ellis Island and then subsided,
immigration to the United States from Mexico has been virtually uninterrupted for one …

Most observers agree that marriage in America has been changing. Some think it is in
decline, that the growth of individualism has made it increasingly difficult to achieve …

African Americans grappled with Jim Crow segregation until it was legally overturned in the
1960s. In subsequent decades, the country witnessed a new wave of immigration from Asia …

We use data from two national surveys of married individuals—one from 1980 and the other
from 2000—to understand how three dimensions of marital quality changed during this …

Previous studies on ethnic intermarriage have been done mainly in the United States and in
other classical immigration countries. This article examines ethnic intermarriage among …

Blacks report lower marital quality and face a higher risk of marital dissolution than Whites,
but little is known about how Hispanics compare to these two groups. We examine five …