The best general introduction to global migration patterns remains Stephen Castles and Mark Miller, The Age of Migration, 3rd ed. (New York: Guilford Press, 2003). See also Anthony M. Messina and Gallya Lahav, eds., The Migration Reader: Exploring Politics and Policy (Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2006). There are excellent chapters on immigration and immigration policy in the United States, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, in James Lynch and Rita Simon, Immigration the World Over: Statutes, Policies, and Practices (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). For a more focused comparative study examining the United States, UK, and Germany, see Christian Joppke, Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
For the detail of the U.S. immigration story, see Michele Wucker, Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (New York: Public Affairs, 2006); Gordon Hanson and others, “Immigration and the US Economy,” part 2 of Immigration Policy and the Welfare System, ed. Tito Boeri, Gordon Hanson, and Barry McCormick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002); Bill Ong Hing, Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004); and Kevin R. Johnson, The “Huddled Masses” Myth: Immigration and Civil Rights (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004). See also Vernon M. Briggs Jr., Mass Immigration and the National Interest: Policy Directions for the New Century, 3rd ed. (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003); Nicholas Laham, Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Immigration Reform (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000); and Louis DeSipio and Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Making Americans, Remaking America: Immigration and Immigrant Policy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998).
On the various positions in the 1990s policy debate in the United States, see Peter Duignan and Lewis H. Gann, The Debate in the United States over Immigration (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1998); Nicholas Mills, Arguing Immigration: The Debate over the Changing Face of America (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994); and John Isbister, The Immigration Debate: Remaking America (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1996). As background to the contemporary debate, see James Lindsay and Aubrey Singer, Changing Faces: Immigrants and Diversity in the Twenty-First Century (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, June 1, 2003); and Gordon Hanson, Why Does Immigration Divide America? Public Finance and Political Opposition to Open Borders (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2005) and Illegal Immigration from Mexico to the United States (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2006).
There has been no shortage of new writings on immigration issues of late. Among the most valuable have been Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002); Doris Meissner and others, Immigration and America’s Future: A New Chapter (Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute, September 2006); the Southern Poverty Law Center’s study of guest-worker programs, Close to Slavery: Guestworker Programs in the United States (Montgomery, AL, 2007); and Ray Marshall’s Getting Immigration Reform Right, Briefing Paper 186 (Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, March 15, 2007).