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Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and Opportunities

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1997
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 331
1 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Contemporary Immigration: Theoretical Perspectives on Its Determinants and Modes of Incorporation

Authors Alejandro Portes, Jozsef Borocz
Year 1989
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 312
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2 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 15

Segmented assimilation on the ground: The new second generation in early adulthood

Authors Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernández-Kelly, William Haller
Year 2005
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 278
3 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 17

Introduction: the debates and significance of immigrant transnationalism

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2001
Journal Name Global Networks
Citations (WoS) 245
4 Journal Article

Language and the Second Generation: Bilingualism Yesterday and Today

Authors Alejandro Portes, Richard Schauffler
Year 1994
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 170
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5 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Gaining the upper hand: Economic mobility among immigrant and domestic minorities

Authors Alejandro Portes, Min Zhou
Year 1992
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 168
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6 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 1

The price of uniformity: language, family and personality adjustment in the immigrant second generation

Authors Alejandro Portes, Lingxin Hao
Year 2002
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 154
7 Journal Article

The Adaptation of the Immigrant Second Generation in America: A Theoretical Overview and Recent Evidence

Authors Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernández-Kelly, William Haller
Year 2009
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 143
8 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 17

Introduction: The Second Generation and the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study

Authors Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut
Year 2005
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 127
9 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 1

What shall I call myself? Hispanic identity formation in the second generation

Authors Alejandro Portes, Dag MacLeod
Year 1996
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 79
10 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Bridging the gap: transnational and ethnic organizations in the political incorporation of immigrants in the United States

Authors Alejandro Portes, Cristina Escobar, Renelinda Arana
Year 2008
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 77
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11 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 4

Migration and development: reconciling opposite views

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2009
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 68
12 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 7

Introduction: Toward a Structural Analysis of Illegal (Undocumented) Immigration

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1978
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 63
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13 Journal Article

Changing Flags: Naturalization and Its Determinants among Mexican Immigrants

Authors Alejandro Portes, John W. Curtis
Year 1987
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 60
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14 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Migration and Social Change: Some Conceptual Reflections

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2010
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 55
15 Journal Article

Immigrant Earnings: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Authors Alejandro Portes, Robert L. Bach
Year 1980
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 55
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16 Journal Article

Life on the edge: immigrants confront the American health system

Authors Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Donald Light
Year 2012
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 48
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17 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 1

The Political Adaptation Process of Cubans and Other Ethnic Minorities in the United States: A Preliminary Analysis

Authors Alejandro Portes, Rafael Mozo
Year 1985
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 47
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18 Journal Article

Flight into Despair: A Profile of Recent Haitian Refugees in South Florida

Authors Alex Stepick, Alejandro Portes
Year 1986
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 36
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19 Journal Article

Moving Ahead in Madrid: Aspirations and Expectations in the Spanish Second Generation

Authors Alejandro Portes, Erik Vickstrom, Rosa Aparicio, ...
Year 2010
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 33
20 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Introduction: Immigration and Its Aftermath

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1994
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 32
21 Journal Article

Transnationalism and Development: Mexican and Chinese Immigrant Organizations in the United States

Authors Alejandro Portes, Min Zhou
Year 2012
Journal Name Population and Development Review
Citations (WoS) 20
22 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 2

Immigration and the UK economy after Brexit

Authors Jonathan Portes
Year 2022
Journal Name Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Citations (WoS) 12
23 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 50

Dreaming in Spain: parental determinants of immigrant children's ambition

Authors Alejandro Portes, Erik Vickstrom, William J. Haller, ...
Year 2013
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 8
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24 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 4

Three years later: the adaptation process of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian refugees in South Florida

Authors Alejandro Portes, Alex Stepick, Cynthia Truelove
Year 1986
Journal Name Population Research and Policy Review
Citations (WoS) 6
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25 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 6

The impact of the post-Brexit migration system on the UK labour market

Authors Jonathan Portes, John Springford
Year 2023
Citations (WoS) 3
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26 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 47

Contemporary slave labour on the Amazonian frontier: the problems and politics of post rescue solidarity

Authors Francis Portes Virginio, Brian Garvey, Luís Henrique da Costa Leão, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Globalizations
Citations (WoS) 3
27 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 4

Immigrant Bilingualism in Spain: An Asset or a Liability?

Authors Maria Medvedeva, Alejandro Portes
Year 2017
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 2
28 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 5

Health care and immigration – understanding the connections

Authors Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Alejandro Portes
Year 2012
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 2
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29 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 4

The Economic Sociology of Immigration.

Authors Philip Martin, Alejandro Portes
Year 1998
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 1
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30 Journal Article

The Long-Term Outcomes of Refugees: Tracking the Progress of the East African Asians

Authors Jake Anders, Simon Burgess, Jonathan Portes
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
31 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 36

General trends and exceptions in the incorporation of immigrant youths to host societies

Authors Alejandro Portes, Rosa Aparicio, William Haller
Year 2017
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
Citations (WoS) 1
32 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 1

Migration, development, and segmented assimilation: A conceptual review of the evidence

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2007
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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33 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

America and Its Immigrants: A Game of Mirrors

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2011
Journal Name PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
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34 Journal Article

Race, pride and the American identity

Authors J Portes
Year 1999
Journal Name REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES
35 Journal Article

Immigration and the metropolis: Reflections on urban history

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2000
Journal Name Journal of International Migration and Integration
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36 Journal Article

Illegal Immigration and the International System, Lessons from Recent Legal Mexican Immigrants to the United States

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1979
Journal Name Social Problems
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37 Journal Article

Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and Opportunities

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1997
Journal Name International Migration Review
38 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Bifurcated immigration and the end of compassion

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2019
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
39 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 9

The Rise of Ethnicity: Determinants of Ethnic Perceptions Among Cuban Exiles in Miami

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1984
Journal Name AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
40 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Dilemmas of a Golden Exile: Integration of Cuban Refugee Families in Milwaukee

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1969
Journal Name American Sociological Review
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41 Journal Article

Blackface, White noise. Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting pot - Rogin,M

Authors J Portes
Year 1997
Journal Name REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES
42 Journal Article

Immigration theory for a new century: Some problems and opportunities (vol 31, pg 807, 1997)

Authors A Portes
Year 1998
Journal Name International Migration Review
43 Journal Article

Facing up to the American dream: Race, class, and the soul of the nation - Hochschild,JL

Authors J Portes
Year 1996
Journal Name REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES
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44 Journal Article

Introduction: Immigration and Its Aftermath

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1994
Journal Name International Migration Review
45 Journal Article

Conclusion: Theoretical convergencies and empirical evidence in the study of immigrant transnationalism

Authors A Portes
Year 2003
Journal Name International Migration Review
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46 Journal Article

Cities and migration

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2023
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
47 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 13

13 Modes of Structural Incorporation and Present Theories of Labor Immigration

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1981
Journal Name International Migration Review
48 Journal Article

Conclusion: Theoretical Convergencies and Empirical Evidence in the Study of Immigrant Transnationalism

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2003
Journal Name International Migration Review
49 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality. Edited by David Card and Steven Raphael. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2013. Pp. xiv+469. $55.00 (paper).

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2015
Journal Name American Journal of Sociology
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50 Journal Article

THE NEW LATIN NATION

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 2007
Journal Name Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
51 Journal Article

Illegal Immigration and the International System, Lessons from Recent Legal Mexican Immigrants to the United States

Authors Alejandro Portes
Year 1979
Journal Name Social Problems
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52 Journal Article

MODULAR AMERICA, CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE EMERGENCE OF AN AMERICAN WAY - BLAIR,JG

Authors J PORTES
Year 1989
Journal Name REVUE FRANCAISE D ETUDES AMERICAINES
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53 Journal Article

Modernization for Emigration: Determinants & Consequences of the Brain Drain

Authors Alejandro Portes, Adrienne Celaya
Year 2013
Journal Name DAEDALUS
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54 Journal Article

Immigration and robots: is the absence of immigrants linked to the rise of automation?

Authors Larry Liu, Alejandro Portes
Year 2020
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
55 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 7

Labor, Class, and the International System

Authors Alejandro Portes, John Walton
Year 1981
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56 Book

Self-Employment and the Earnings of Immigrants

Authors Alejandro Portes, Min Zhou
Year 1996
Journal Name AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
57 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Educating the second generation: Determinants of academic achievement among children of immigrants in the United States

Authors Alejandro Portes, Dag MacLeod
Year 1999
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
58 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

A Cross-Atlantic Dialogue: The Progress of Research and Theory in the Study of International Migration

Authors Alejandro Portes, Josh DeWind
Year 2004
Journal Name International Migration Review
59 Journal Article

Language and the Second Generation: Bilingualism Yesterday and Today

Authors Alejandro Portes, Richard Schauffler
Year 1994
Journal Name International Migration Review
60 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Class and ambition in the status attainment process: A Spanish replication

Authors William Haller, Alejandro Portes
Year 2019
Journal Name The British Journal of Sociology
61 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Flight into Despair: A Profile of Recent Haitian Refugees in South Florida

Authors Alex Stepick, Alejandro Portes
Year 1986
Journal Name International Migration Review
62 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 6

WHATS AN ETHNIC ENCLAVE - THE CASE FOR CONCEPTUAL CLARITY - COMMENT

Authors A PORTES, L JENSEN
Year 1987
Journal Name American Sociological Review
63 Journal Article

CARIBBEAN DIASPORAS - MIGRATION AND ETHNIC-COMMUNITIES

Authors A PORTES, R GROSFOGUEL
Year 1994
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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64 Journal Article

Unwelcome Immigrants: The Labor Market Experiences of 1980 (Mariel) Cuban and Haitian Refugees in South Florida

Authors Alejandro Portes, Alex Stepick
Year 1985
Journal Name AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
65 Journal Article

The Enclave and the Entrants: Patterns of Ethnic Enterprise in Miami before and after Mariel

Authors Alejandro Portes, Leif Jensen
Year 1989
Journal Name AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
66 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 6

Immigrant Enclaves: An Analysis of the Labor Market Experiences of Cubans in Miami

Authors Kenneth L. Wilson, Alejandro Portes
Year 1980
Journal Name American Journal of Sociology
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67 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 56

No Margin for Error: Educational and Occupational Achievement among Disadvantaged Children of Immigrants

Authors Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Year 2008
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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68 Journal Article

Immigrant Earnings: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Authors Alejandro Portes, Robert L. Bach
Year 1980
Journal Name International Migration Review
69 Journal Article

Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action

Authors Alejandro Portes, Julia Sensenbrenner
Year 1993
Journal Name American Journal of Sociology
70 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 40

The Enclave and the Entrants: Patterns of Ethnic Enterprise in Miami Before and After Mariel

Authors Leif Jensen, Alejandro Portes
Year 1992
Journal Name American Sociological Review
71 Journal Article

The economic impact of Brexit-induced reductions in migration

Authors Jonathan Portes, Giuseppe Forte
Year 2017
Journal Name OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY
72 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 83

'E pluribus unum': Bilingualism and the loss of language in the second generation

Authors A Portes, L Hao
Year 2001
Journal Name REVISTA DE OCCIDENTE
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73 Journal Article

The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants

Authors A PORTES, M ZHOU
Year 1993
Journal Name The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
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74 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 52

The Adaptation of Migrant Children

Authors Alejandro Portes, Alejandro Rivas
Year 2011
Journal Name FUTURE OF CHILDREN
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75 Journal Article

A cross-Atlantic dialogue: The progress of research and theory in the study of international migration

Authors A Portes, J DeWind
Year 2004
Journal Name International Migration Review
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76 Journal Article

Changing Flags: Naturalization and its Determinants among Mexican Immigrants

Authors Alejandro Portes, John W. Curtis
Year 1987
Journal Name International Migration Review
77 Journal Article

They are not all the same: immigrant enterprises, transnationalism, and development

Authors Alejandro Portes, Brandon P. Martinez
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
78 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 1

Bilingualism and achievement in the Spanish second generation: A longitudinal study

Authors Brandon P. Martinez, Alejandro Portes
Year 2021
Journal Name Ethnic and Racial Studies
79 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 9

Coming of age in Spain: the self‐identification, beliefs and self‐esteem of the second generation1

Authors Alejandro Portes, Erik Vickstrom, Rosa Aparicio
Year 2011
Journal Name The British Journal of Sociology
80 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 1

MENTAL-ILLNESS AND HELP-SEEKING BEHAVIOR AMONG MARIEL CUBAN AND HAITIAN REFUGEES IN SOUTH-FLORIDA

Authors A PORTES, D KYLE, WW EATON
Year 1992
Journal Name JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
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81 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 6

Transnational Entrepreneurs: An Alternative Form of Immigrant Economic Adaptation

Authors Alejandro Portes, William J. Haller, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo
Year 2002
Journal Name American Sociological Review
82 Journal Article

Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States.

Authors Jose A. Cobas, Alejandro Portes, Robert L. Bach
Year 1987
Journal Name International Migration Review
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83 Journal Article

Logistics of unfreedom: The labour trafficking of Venezuelan truck drivers in Brazil

Authors Francis Portes Virginio, Lívia dos Santos Ferreira
Year 2023
Journal Name Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space
84 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 3

Assimilation and Transnationalism: Determinants of Transnational Political Action among Contemporary Migrants

Authors Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, Alejandro Portes, William Haller
Year 2003
Journal Name American Journal of Sociology
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85 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 12

From securitisation to martialisation: Logistics of humanitarian protection in Brazil’s Amazon

Authors Francis Portes Virginio, Brian Garvey, Paul Stewart
Year 2024
Journal Name Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
86 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 4

Transnational Entrepreneurs: An Alternative Form of Immigrant Economic Adaptation

Authors Alejandro Portes, Luis Eduardo Guarnizo, William J. Haller
Year 2002
Journal Name AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
87 Journal Article
Article has an altmetric score of 9

Immigrant America: A Portrait.

Authors Jean Molesky-Poz, Alejandro Portes, Ruben G. Rumbaut
Year 1991
Journal Name International Migration Review
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88 Journal Article

Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium

Authors Alejandro Portes, Douglas S. Massey, Joaquin Arango, ...
Year 2000
Journal Name International Migration Review
89 Journal Article

Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation in Spain, wave 2

Authors Portes, Alejandro, and Aparicio, Rosa. Longitudinal Study of the Second Generation in Spain (ILSEG), Wave 2: ILSEG_T1andT2_Public.sav. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political
Year 2012
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