Alba, Richard, & Nee, Victor. 2003. Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Bean, Frank, & Stevens, Gillian. 2003. America’s Newcomers and the Dynamics of Diversity. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Kasinitz, Philip, Mollenkopf, John H., Waters, Mary C., & Holdaway, Jennifer. 2008. Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

• Three landmark studies of contemporary immigrants that find that assimilation is generally following a course consistent with the “traditional” model of assimilation

Portes, Alejandro, & Rumbaut, Rubén. 2001. Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Portes, Alejandro, & Rumbaut, Rubén. 2001. Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

• Two landmark studies of new American groups whose findings are generally consistent with the segmented assimilation hypothesis