The situation in the USA has been the subject of intense policy and political debate over the past decades and the chapters in this collection cover diverse aspects of the changing meanings and boundaries of race, migration and identity in the contemporary USA. They provide an insight into the changing dynamics of race and migration in the contemporary environment, combining conceptual analysis with original empirical research. The concerns of this volume address global questions of relevance as well as those specific to the USA. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

1. Introduction 2. Migrating race: migration and racial identification among Puerto Ricans 3. 'I'm American, not Japanese!': the struggle for racial citizenship among later-generation Japanese Americans 4. Are second-generation Filipinos 'becoming' Asian American or Latino? Historical colonialism, culture and panethnicity 5. Mexican Americans as a paradigm for contemporary intra-group heterogeneity 6. Segmented political assimilation: perceptions of racialized opportunities and Latino immigrants' partisan identification 7. Defining immigrant newcomers in new destinations: symbolic boundaries in Williamsburg, Virginia 8. Skin tone, biracial stratification and tri-racial stratification among sperm donors 9. Body area dissatisfaction in white, black and Latina female college students in the USA: an examination of racially salient appearance areas and ethnic identity 10. Mediators of stereotype threat among black college students