Includes index.

Contents: Introduction: California immigrants in world perspective -- Migration networks and immigrant entrepreneurship -- Asian and Latino immigrants in the Los Angeles garment industry: An exploration of the relationship between capitalism and racial oppression -- Immigrants in garment production in Paris and Berlin -- Immigrant entrepreneurs in France -- Asian Indians in Southern California: occupations and ethnicity -- Twice and direct migrant sikhs: caste, class, and identity in Pre - and Post - 1984 Britain -- Korean immigrants in Los Angeles -- Korean in Japan and the United States: attitudes toward achievement and authority -- Subethnicity: Armenians in Los Angeles -- Armenians in Moscow -- Critical Issues in the U.S. Legal Immigration Reform Debate -- New Zealand's immigration policies and immigration Act (1987): comparisons with the United States of America -- Mexican immigrants in California today -- Index.