This volume of The ANNALS brings together a leading set of scholars to present new research on trends in the spatial forms of immigration that are transforming the American landscape-the effects of "the world in a city." With a distinct analytic focus, the volume takes a comparative approach, examining recent immigration trends, disaggregating by ethnicity or immigrant type wherever possible, focusing on core features of the nation's social fabric (e.g., violence, legitimacy of social institutions, governance, economic well-being), and empirically going beyond the big cities of traditional concern to a host of smaller cities and towns reaching into far-flung pockets of the country. The lineup includes papers on both familiar cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami; as well as places as different as San Antonio; Nashville; Boston; Dublin; Hazleton, Pennsylvania; and St. James, Minnesota. While the places studied and features of their social fabric may differ, the social processes underlying the spatial forms of immigration are shown to be largely the same. This volume will be of interest to social scientists from a broad range of disciplines who engage in research and teaching on issues related to immigration; policy-makers; and individuals working on immigration-policy research.

1. The World in a City: Immigration and America's Changing - John M. MacDonald and Robert J. Sampson
2. Immigration Enforcement Policies, the Economic Recession, and The Size of Local Mexican Immigrant Populations - Emilio A. Parrado
3. Can Immigration Save Small-Town America? Hispanic Boomtowns and the Uneasy Path to Renewal - Patrick J. Carr, Daniel T. Lichter, and Maria J. Kefalas
4. Seeing Immigrants: Institutional Visibility and Immigrant Incorporation in New Immigrant - Jamie Winders
5. The Paradox of Law Enforcement in Immigrant Communities: Does Tough Immigration Enforcement Undermine Public Safety? - David S. Kirk, Andrew V. Papachristos, Jeffrey Fagan, and Tom R. Tyler
6. Crime and Enforcement in Immigrant Neighborhoods: Evidence from New York City - Garth Davies and Jeffrey Fagan
7. Are Immigrant Youth Less Violent? Specifying the Reasons and Mechanisms - John MacDonald and Jessica Saunders
8. Why Some Immigrant Neighborhoods are Safer than Others? Divergent Findings from Los Angeles and Chicago - Charis E. Kubrin and Hiromi Ishizawa
9. Extending immigration and Crime Studies: National implications and Local Settings. - Ramiro Martinez, Jr and Jacob Stowell
10. Immigrants and social distance: Examining the social consequences of immigration for Southern California neighborhoods over 50 years - John R. Hipp and Adam Boessen
11. The Limits of Spatial Assimilation for Immigrants' Full Integration: Emerging Evidence from African - Zoua Vang
12. Studies of the New Immigration: The Dangers of Pan-Ethnic Classifications - Stephanie M. DiPietro and Robert J. Bursik