Reviewed by Ivan Light | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.3

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Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America. By Dowell Myers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007. xviii + 356 pp. Tables, graphs, notes, bibliography, appendices, and index. $35.00 (cloth).

Dowell Myers uses demographic trends to pose the immigration dilemmas that now face California and the United States and then suggests a plausible way out. The basic problem arises because Mexico and the United States are passing through different stages of a demographic transition that began in the early nineteenth century. Like other mature transition countries, the United States has an aging population that needs youth. Moving now to an early mid-stage of the transition, thanks to its high birth rates in the 1950s and 1960s, Mexico still needs to export surplus population. In effect, Mexico exports the youthful families that California and the United States need. There ought to be a basis here for a mutually advantageous bargain.

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