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Book Review: Immigration the World Over: Statutes, Policies, and Practices

disadvantaged “minority” group. Missing is the perspective that might have been gained if successful and unsuccessful minorities were compared. Missing also is a consideration of assimilation as a possible outcome, desirable or otherwise, as a means of dealing with ethnic conflict. The author is quick to attribute ethnic conflict to rent-seeking behavior and interethnic competition in the labor market, but there is virtually no discussion of the many cases of interethnic cooperation or of rent seeking that crosses ethnic lines. Without this broader perspective, the illustrative examples are much less convincing than they should have been. The value of the author’s considerable experience and useful analytical insights is greatly diminished by these problems. Contrary to her assertion, the economics of immigration, immigrant absorption, and ethnic group differences has greatly influenced and been influenced by researchers in the other social sciences. The multi-disciplinary nature of the subject is reflected in many journal articles and conference volumes in which economic theory helps organize thinking on many topics. In contrast, this book reads like an abstract cataloging of possible ethnic groups experiences illustrated by an ad hoc compilation of examples. As such, it comes across as an earnest but ultimately unsuccessful effort to deal with a very large and even more elusive subject.