Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Places.(Review) (book review)

Separate Destinations: Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Places. By James G. Gimpel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 403p. $57.50.

James Gimpel has written a deceptively complex book. He examines recent migration and immigration trends and very methodically studies the various electoral consequences of these trends. He does this in seven states and in four counties or regions within each state, which allows him to investigate what happens politically in places that gain as well as lose population. And he studies the relationship of migration and politics ...

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