The politics of immigration have heated up in recent years as Congress has failed to adopt comprehensive immigration reform, the President has proposed executive actions, and state and local governments have responded unevenly and ambivalently to burgeoning immigrant communities in the context of a severe economic downturn. Moreover we have witnessed large shifts in the locations of immigrants and their families between and within the metropolitan areas of the United States. Charlotte, North Carolina, may be a more active and dynamic immigrant destination than Chicago, Illinois, while the suburbs are receiving ever more immigrants.

1. The Ethnic Mosaic: Immigrant Integration at the Metropolitan Scale John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor2. The Cases in Context: Data and Destinies in Seven Metropolitan Areas Manuel Pastor and John Mollenkopf3. Teeming Shores: Immigrant Reception in the Fragmented Metropolis of New York Els de Graauw, Diana R. Gordon, and John Mollenkopf4. Machine Matters: The Politics of Immigrant Integration in the Chicago Metro Area Jaime Dominguez5. Movements Matter: Immigrant Integration in Los Angeles Manuel Pastor, Juan De Lara, and Rachel Rosner6. The Last Suburb: Immigrant Integration in the Inland Empire Juan De Lara7. "The Kindness of Strangers": Ambivalent Reception in Charlotte, North Carolina Michael Jones-Correa8. Chill Winds in the Valley of the Sun: Immigrant Integration in the Phoenix Region Doris Marie Provine and Paul G. Lewis9. Out of Many, One: Collaborating for Immigrant Integration in San José Manuel Pastor, Rachel Rosner, and Jennifer Tran10. Synthesizing the Research: Themes, Challenges, and Opportunities Manuel Pastor and John Mollenkopf