| | | Introduction : migration theory - talking across disciplines by Caroline B. Brettell and James F. Hollifield | | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | | History and the study of immigration : narratives of the particular by Hasia R. Diner | | 31 |
| Ch. 2 | | Demographic analyses of international migration by Michael S. Teitelbaum | | 51 |
| Ch. 3 | | Are immigrants favorably self-selected? : an economic analysis by Barry R. Chiswick | | 63 |
| Ch. 4 | | The sociology of immigration : from assimilation to segmented assimilation, from the American experience to the global arena by Barbara Schmitter Heisler | | 83 |
| Ch. 5 | | Theorizing migration in anthropology : the social construction of networks, identities, communities, and globalscapes by Caroline B. Brettell | | 113 |
| Ch. 6 | | Place, space, and pattern : geographical theories in international migration by Susan W. Hardwick | | 161 |
| Ch. 7 | | The politics of international migration : how can we "bring the state back in"? by James F. Hollifield | | 183 |
| Ch. 8 | | Law and the study of migration by Peter H. Schuck | | 239 |
| Ch. 9 | | Rebooting migration theory : interdisciplinarity, globality, and postdisciplinarity in migration studies by Adrian Favell | | 259 |