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A Call for the Racialization of Immigration Studies: On the Transition of Ethnic Immigrants to Racialized Immigrants
There is more than a century of research that has examined immigrants in the United States. Despite
major changes in the origin of immigrants, the assimilation perspective, based on the experiences of
European immigrants, continues to be the dominant paradigm used to assess immigrants in this country.
While immigrants of color have experienced major hostility and racialization, research continues to largely
neglect issues involving race relations. This study provides a historical overview of the racialization of
immigrants including immigration policies and shows that the racialization of immigrants has occurred
historically but particularly over the past half century as non-Europeans became the primary groups of
immigrants in this country. In addition, the study calls for immigration researchers to more fully incorporate
race perspectives into the study of immigrants. Furthermore, the study illustrates the need to consider
methodological and data approaches to integrate racial matters into the study of immigrants. The article
concludes with a discussion of the sociological implications of incorporating race more centrally in the
study of immigrants.
Keywords: immigration, race, ethnic relations
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