* Migration Patterns * Germans around the World * Japanese around the World * Italians around the World * The Overseas Chinese * Jews of the Diaspora * The Overseas Indians * History and Cultures
Thomas Sowell has taught economics at a number of colleges and universities, including Cornell, University of California Los Angeles, and Amherst. He has published both scholarly and popular articles and books on economics, and is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
"Migrations and Cultures forcibly brings home the lesson that,
although from the point of view of economic development there may
be better and worse immigrant groups, it is misguided to talk of
immigration itself in the abstract, as if it were always a good, or
always a bad, thing.... Although Sowell himself is never
deterministic on the subject, he shows throughout that because
immigration is rooted in human nature, it is subject to its own set
of eternal verities. Migrations and Cultures is deeply instructive
in acquainting us with some of them."--Commentary Magazine
"Interesting insights abound in this study.... Sowell's treatment
is so comprehensive and detailed, with a plethora of footnotes on
almost every page, that his book will be of particular interest to
specialists."--Publishers Weekly
"Sowell makes several observations about immigration important to
the historical record and that remain relevant today."--Forbes
"This is a lively and provocative book that is important reading
for anyone who thinks we have too many immigrants or too few, who
favors affirmative action and multicultural programs or opposes
them... Deflates any windbag oratory about the United States being
a unique land of opportunity, where migrants succeed by discarding
their former culture and leaping naked into the great melting
pot."--New York Times
"Thomas Sowell has done it again... This is a vital contribution to
a debate that has been framed far too narrowly."--Donald L.
Horowitz, professor emeritus, Duke Law School
"Thomas Sowell is not only one of the most prolific intellectuals
writing today, he remains one of the most insightful.... Tracing
the history of six migrant groups--Chinese, Japanese, Germans,
Italians, Jews, and Indians--Sowell explains the contributions each
has made to the countries where they settled or sojourned,
enriching those nations in the process of helping themselves. While
some social scientists battle endlessly over whether racism or race
itself explains differences in achievement between groups, Sowell
offers a more subtle and convincing argument for the importance of
skills."--Linda Chavez, president, Center for Equal Opportunity
"Thomas Sowell is one of the wonders of the American intellectual
world.... Not only is this book crammed with detailed research that
even experts will find instructive, but it is willing to look
unflinchingly at evidence that suggests migration can be bad as
well as good--and even that the era of mass migration may be
drawing to a close."--Peter Brimelow, author of Alien Nation
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