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Richard D. Alba, John Logan, Amy Lutz, and Brian Stults. “Only English by the Third Generation? Loss and Preservation of the Mother Tongue among the Grandchildren of Contemporary Immigrants.” Demography 39, 3 (2002): 467-484.

Richard D. Alba and Victor Nee. Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Congressional Budget Office. The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market. November 2005. Washington, DC: U.S. Congress.

José J. Escarce, Leo S, Morales, and Rubén G. Rumbaut, “Health Status and Health Behaviors of Hispanics.” Pp. 362-409 in Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell, eds., Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the Future of America. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006.

Douglas S. Massey, D. S., Arango, J., Hugo, G., Kouaouci, A., Pellegrino, A., and Taylor, J. E. Worlds In Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millenium. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut, Immigrant America: A Portrait. New third edition, revised, expanded, and updated. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.

Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut, Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Berkeley and New York: University of California Press and Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.

Rubén G. Rumbaut, “Assimilation and Its Discontents: Ironies and Paradoxes.” Pp. 172-195 in C. Hirschman, J. DeWind, and P. Kasinitz, eds., The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.

Rubén G. Rumbaut and Walter A. Ewing, “The Myth of Immigrant Criminality and the Paradox of Assimilation: Incarceration Rates among Native and Foreign-Born Men.” Immigration Policy Center Special Report. Washington, DC: American Immigration Law Foundation, 2007.

Rubén G. Rumbaut and John R. Weeks, “Unraveling a Public Health Enigma: Why Do Immigrants Experience Superior Perinatal Health Outcomes?” Research in the Sociology of Health Care, 13 (1996): 335-388.

Social Science Research Council, Border Battles: U.S. Immigration Debates. A forum of original insights from social scientists on key underlying issues

Marta Tienda and Faith Mitchell, eds., Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies: Hispanics and the Future of America. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006.

Mary C. Waters, Reed Ueda and Helen B. Marrow, eds., The New Americans: A Handbook to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Aristide R. Zolberg, A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.

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Ruben RumbautRubén G. Rumbaut is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He was written extensively on immigration and the adaptation of immigrants.

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