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Winter, 2006
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REVIEWS

SECTION 4
IMMIGRATION

Migration and Immigration: A Global View. By Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004. xxxii plus 255 pp.).
This volume provides an introductory review of issues in migration, focusing especially on the late twentieth century. The subtitle, "a global view," is shared in ten other volumes in a series on current social issues, including teen violence, child abuse, and women's rights. The nature of the global view, however, is restricted to a scattering of national studies across the continents, without development of any overriding interpretation or analysis. The result is a book which is of some use at the introductory level, but in which the eclectic descriptions come with little guidance on how they should be analyzed. The introduction and fourteen chapters do indeed address a range of issues in migration, but they stop short of showing global linkages or even organized comparisons among the cases. While the authors stem from a range of disciplines, the focus on a general audience leads to minimal analysis in any discipline. The introductory chapter provides two sorts of categorization: a periodization of world migration into colonial, industrial, and industrial periods, and summaries of contemporary migration experience for four world regions. Implicitly, it makes clear that the book will be descriptive rather than interpretive. . . .
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