The Section on International Migration Award for Public Sociology in International Migration
2024: Elizabeth Vaquera, George Washington University, and Elizabeth Aranda, University of South Florida
2024: Natasha Warikoo, Tufts University
2023: Jody Agius Vallejo, University of Southern California
2023 Honorable Mention: Luis Romero, Texas Christian University
2022: Jennifer Lee, Columbia University
2022: Anthony Ocampo, California State Polytechnic University
2021: Veronica Terriquez, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
2021: Julie Dowling, Latina/Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2021 Honorable Mention: Abigail Andrews, Sociology, University of California, San Diego
2021 Honorable Mention: Tiffany Joseph, Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University
2020: Robert C. Smith, Baruch College and the Graduate Center
2019: Leisy Abrego, University of California, Los Angeles
2018: Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California
2016: Nestor Rodriguez, University of Texas, Austin
2015: Cecilia Menjívar, Arizona State University
2014: Roberto Gonzales, Harvard University
2013: David Fitzgerald, University of California, San Diego
2013 Honorable Mention: Pawan Dhingra, Amherst College
The Section on International Migration’s Aristide Zolberg Student Scholar Award
2024: Pamela Zabala Ortíz, Boston University, “The social aftershocks of a migration crisis: racial threat and racial drift in the Dominican Republic.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Samuel Dinger, New York University, “Un/predictable states: legal status regularization and the production of refugee precarity in Lebanon”
2024 Honorable Mention: Keitaro Okura, Yale University, “Americans without Americanness: The U.S. National Hierarchy and Racialized Boundaries of Authentic Belonging.”
2023: Antonia Mardones Marshall, University of California at Berkeley, “Who is Afro-Chilean? Authenticity Struggles and Boundary Making in Chile’s Northern Borderland.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 44(14): 2679–2701. 2021.
2023: Austin Hoang-Nam Vo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “Contexts of Contestation: How Competing Logics of the State Enable and Constrain Immigrant Political Action.”
2023 Honorable Mention: Kyle E. Waldman, Harvard University, “Transnational Social Stratification? Legal Status of Immigrant Parents and the Educational Achievements of Mexican Children.” International Migration Review, 57(1): 265–291. 2023.
2022: Jiaqi Liu, University of California, San Diego, “From ‘Sea Turtles’ to ‘Grassroots Ambassadors’: The Chinese Politics of Outbound Student Migration.”
2022: Francisco Lara-García, Columbia University, “Components of Context: Respecifying the Role of Context in Migration Research.”
2021: Andrew N. Le, UCLA, “The Third Element of Migration: Tertius Carpens and the Brokerage of Cross-Border Mobility in Vietnam”
2020: Daniela Pila, University at Albany, SUNY “Legal Status Fluidity: Theorizing Legal Status Transitions and How Filipinos Navigate Immigration Pathways” 2019.
2020: Jiaqi Liu, University of California, San Diego, “Citizenship on the move: The deprivation and restoration of emigrant citizenship in China” 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Chen Liang, University of Texas Austin, “Taiwanese Immigrants for Trump? Racialized Assimilation into a White Society” 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Jacob Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles, “Whom Do US Consular Officers Perceive As ‘Immigrants’? How Cultural Habitus Stratifies Legal Mobility From Mainland China to the United States” 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Vanessa Delgado, University of California, Irvine, “They think I’m a lawyer: Undocumented College Students as Legal Brokers for Their Undocumented Parents” 2019.
2019: Ariana Valle, University of California, Los Angeles, “Race and the Empire-state: Puerto Ricans’ Unequal U.S. Citizenship,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 5(1):26-40. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Andy Scott Chang, University of California, Berkeley, “Producing the Self-Regulating Subject: Liberal Protection in Indonesia’s Migration Infrastructure,” Pacific Affairs 91(4):695-716. 2018.
2018: Lucas Drouhot, Cornell University, “Cracks in the Melting Pot? Religiosity & Assimilation Among the Diverse Muslim Populations in France”
2018 Honorable Mention: Deisy Del Real, University of California, Los Angeles, “Toxic Ties: The Reproduction of Legal Violence within Mixed-Status Intimate Partners, Relatives, and Friends”
2017: Gina Marie Longo, “Mothers and Moneymakers: Using Gender Norms for Policing Marriage Fraud in U.S. Immigration,” Unpublished Manuscript, Revised and Resubmitted Gender and Society
2016: Hajar Yazdiha, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Do Immigrant Integration Policies Increase Perceptions of Exclusion? Comparing First and Second-Generation European Muslims in Four Countries?”
2016 Honorable Mention: Brenda Gambol, “Changing racial boundaries and mixed union: the case of second-generation Filipino Americans,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 39(14):2621-2640. 2016
2016 Honorable Mention: Yader Lanuza, “Who Helps: Immigrant-Native Differences in Patterns of Homework Assistance,” Sociological Perspectives 60(2):293-314. 2016.
2015: Ariela Schachter, Stanford University, “A Change of Heart or Change of Address? The Geographic Sorting of Whites’ Attitudes towards Immigration”
2014: Rene Flores, Princeton University, “Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands: Do Local Anti-Immigrant Law Or-dinances Increase Gun Sales”
2014 Honorable Mention: Stephanie Canizales, University of Southern California, “American Individualism and the Social Adaptation of Unauthorized, Unac-companied Mayan Young-Adults in Los Angeles”
2013: Rene Flores, Princeton University, “The resurgence of Race in Europe: Perceptions of Discrimination Among Immigrants in Spain,” Social Forces 94(1):237-269. 2015.
2013 Honorable Mention: Abigail Andrews, University of California, Berkeley, “States of ‘Illegality’: How Local Immigration Policing Shapes Undocumented Workers’ Agency”
2013 Honorable Mention: Angela Garcia, University of California, San Diego, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Strategic Immigrant Assimilation in Restrictionist Destinations”
2013 Honorable Mention: Mytoan Nguyen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “The Tensions of Diasporic Return Migration in the Vietnamese Transnational Family”
2012: Sylvia Zamora,University of California, Los Angeles, “Racial Remittances: the Effect of Migration on Racial Ideologies in Mexico,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 2(4):466-481. 2016.
2011: Anthony Christian Ocampo, University of California, Los Angeles, “Are Second Generation Filipinos Becoming Asian Americans or Latino? Historical Colonialism, Culture, and Panethnic Identity,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 37(3):425-445. 2013.
2010: Van Tran, Harvard University, “English Gain vs. Spanish Loss? Language Assimilation among Second-Generation Latinos in Young Adulthood,” Social Forces 89(1):257–284. 2010.
2009: Phillip Connor, Princeton University, “Do Immigrants Religiously Assimilate? Contextualizing Immigrant Religious Participation in Western Europe, the United States and Canada”
2009 Honorable Mention: Asaf Levanon, Stanford University, “How to Succeed as an Immigrant: Effects of Group Resources and Labor Market Structure on Earnings Assimilation”
2008: Jody Agius Vallejo, University of California, Irvine, “Latina Spaces: Middle Class Ethnic Capital and Professional Associations in the Latino Community,” City & Community 8(2):129-154. 2009.
2008 Honorable Mention: Oluwakemi M. Balogun, University of California, Berkeley, “Cultural Influences on Migrant Drug Dealers in Germany”
2007: Suzanna Crage, Indiana University, “Policy, Place, Ideas: Refugee Aid Policy in Munich”
2007 Honorable Mention: Sandra Bucerius, University of Frankfurt, Germany (visiting at University of Toronto), “’What Else Should I Do?’ Cultural Influences on the Drug Trade of Migrants in Germany,” Journal of Drug Issues 37(3):673-697. 2007.
2006: Jim Bachmeier, University of California, Irvine, “New Destination Contexts of Reception: Labor Market Coethnic Concentration and the Earning of Recent Mexican Immigrants”
2005: Emily Ryo, Stanford University, “Documenting the Significance of Race for the Undocumented: Occupational Mobility of Undocumented Immigrants”
2003: David FitzGerald, University of California, Los Angeles, “Nationality and Migration in Modern Mexico,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31(1):171-191. 2007.
2002: David Fitzgerald, University of California, Los Angeles, “Beyond ‘Transnationalism’: Mexican Hometown Politics at an American Labor Union,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 27(2):228-247. 2004.
2001: Rebecca Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, “Assimilation, Ethnicity, and Religion: Korean American Campus Evangelicals’ Ethnic Religious Participation”
2000: John Fox, University of California, Los Angeles,“Identity Formation in Migration: The Case of Transylvania Hungarian Guest Workers”
1999: Irene Bloemraad, Harvard University, “A Macro-Institutional Approach to Immigrant Political Incorporation: Comparing the Naturalization Rates and Processes of Portuguese Immigrants in the U.S. and Canada”
1997: Nancy Weinberg, Stanford University, “Labor Market Attainment in the Context of Mass Migration: The Case of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in Israel”
1996: Dae Young Kim, The Graduate Center, City University New York, “The Limits of Ethnic Solidarity: The employment of Mexicans and Ecuadorians in Korean-owned Businesses in New York City”
The Section on International Migration’s Distinguished Career Award
2023: Jennifer Lee, Columbia University
2022: Phil Kasinitz, CUNY Graduate Center
2021: no award made
2020: Cecilia Menjivar, University of California, Los Angeles
2019: Steven Gold, Michigan State University
2018: Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University
2017: Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles
2016: Mary Waters, Harvard University
2015: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, University of Southern California
2014: Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine
2012: Pyong Gap Min, Queens College
2012: Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles
2011: Frank D. Bean, University of California, Irvine
2010: Nancy Foner, Hunter College, City University of New York
2009: Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University
2008: Richard D. Alba, Graduate Center, City University of New York
2005: Edna Bonacich, University of California,Riverside
2005: Lydio Tomasi, Center for Migration Studies
2004: Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University
2004: Nathan Glazer, Harvard University
2000: Ivan Light, University of California, Los Angeles
1998: Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
The Section on International Migration’s Louis Wirth Best Article Award
2024: Jake Watson, Boston University, “Standardizing Refuge: Pipelines and Pathways in the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program.” American Sociological Review, 88(4) 681–708. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Omid Asayesh and Abdolmohammad Kazemipur, University of Calgary, “Homo Emigraturus vs. Anti Emigraturus: The Rise of Involuntary Immobility in Iran and Its Consequences” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 50:(4) 970–993. 2023.
2023: Hyeyoung Kwon, Indiana University Bloomington, “Inclusion Work: Children of Immigrants Claiming Membership in Everyday Life.” American Journal of Sociology, 127(6): 1818-1859. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Melanie Jones Gast, University of Louisville, Dina G. Okamoto, Indiana University Bloomington, and Emerald T. Nguyen, National Institute on Aging, “Making Requests: Filipina/o and Latina/o Immigrant Claims-Making and Racialization.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44:7: 1211-1230. 2021.
2023 Honorable Mention: Jennifer A. Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago, “They Are There with Us”: Theorizing Racial Status and Intergroup Relations.” American Journal of Sociology, 128 (2): 411-461. 2022.
2022: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern California, “Discipline and Empower: The State Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers.” American Sociological Review. Vol. 86(6): 1043-1065. 2021.
2022: Hajar Yazdiha, University of Southern California, “Toward a Du Boisian Framwork of Immigrant Incorporation: Racialized Contexts, Relational Identities, and Muslim American Collective Action.” Social Problems, Vol. 68(2): 300-320. 2021.
2021: Peter Catron, University of Washington, “The Citizenship Advantage: Immigrant Socioeconomic Attainment in the Age of Mass Migration”, American Journal of Sociology: 124 (4):999-1042. 2019.
2021 Honorable Mention: Ricardo D. Martínez-Schuldt of University Notre Dame and Daniel E. Martínez of University of Arizona, “Sanctuary Policies and City-Level Incidents of Violence, 1990 to 2010”, Justice Quarterly 36:567-593. 2019.
2021 Honorable Mention: Chiara Galli, Cornell University, “Humanitarian Capital: How Lawyers Help Immigrants Use Suffering to Claim Membership in the Nation-State,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 46:2181-2198. 2020.
2020: Zai Liang, University at Albany, SUNY, and Xi’an Jiaotong University, Jiejin Li, University of Rochester, Glenn Deane, University at Albany, SUNY, Zhen Li, Shanghai University, and Bo Zhou, University at Albany, SUNY, “From Chinatown to Every Town: New Patterns of Employment for Low-Skilled Chinese Immigrants in the United States.” Social Forces. 2018.
2020 Honorable Mention: Jennifer Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago, “From Open Doors to Closed Gates: Intragenerational Reverse Incorporation in New Immigrant Destinations.” International Migration Review. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Yao Lu, Columbia University, “Empowerment or Disintegration? Migration, Social Institutions, and Collective Action in Rural China.” American Journal of Sociology. 2019.
2019: Wesley Hiers, University of Pittsburgh, Thomas Soehl, McGill University, and Andreas Wimmer, Columbia University, “National Trauma and the Fear of Foreigners: How Past Geopolitical Threat Heightens Anti-Immigration Sentiment Today,” Social Forces 96(1):361-388. 2017.
2019: Asad L. Asad, Stanford University, and Jackelyn Hwang, Stanford University, “Indigenous Places and the Making of Undocumented Status in Mexico-US Migration,” International Migration Review 2018.
2018: Maria Abascal, Columbia University, “Tu Casa, Mi Casa: Naturalization and Belonging Among Latino Immigrants,” International Migration Review 51(2):291-322. 2017.
2018: Rene Flores, University of Washington, “Do Anti-Immigrant Laws Shape Public Sentiment? A Study of Arizona’s SB 1070 Using Twitter Data,” American Journal of Sociology 123(2):333-384. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Cynthia Feliciano, University of California, Irvine, and Yader Lanuza, University of Miami, “An Immigrant Paradox? Contextual Attainment and Intergenerational Educational Mobility,” American Sociological Review 82(1):211-241. 2017.
2017: Ariela Schachter, “From ‘Different’ to ‘Similar’: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Assimilation,” American Sociological Review 81(5):981-1013. 2016.
2017 Honorable Mention: Cecilia Menjívar and Sarah M. Lakhani,“Transformative Effects of Immigration Law: Migrants’ Personal and Social Metamorphoses through Regularization,” American Journal of Sociology 121(6):1818-1855. 2016.
2017 Honorable Mention: Dana Moss, “Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of the Arab Spring,” Social Problems 63(4):480-498. 2016.
2016: Mathew J. Creighton and Amaney Jamal, “Does Islam Play a Role in Anti-Immigrant Sentiment? An Experimental Approach,” Social Science Research 53:98-103. 2015.
2016: Kim Ebert and Dina Okamoto, “Legitimating Contexts, Immigrant Protests, and Exclusionary Actions,” Social Problems 62(1):40-67. 2015.
2015: Robert Courtney Smith, “Black Mexicans, Conjunctural Ethnicity, and Operating Identities: Long-Term Ethnographic Analysis,”American Sociological Review 79(3):517-548. 2014.
2014: Hana Brown, Wake Forest University, “Race, Legality, and the Social Policy Consequences of Anti-Immigration Mobilization,” American Sociological Review 78(2):290-314. 2013.
2013: Joanna Dreby, State University of New York, 2012. “The Burden of Deportation on Children in Mexican Immigrant Families,” Journal of Marriage and Family 74(4):829–845. 2012.
2013: Julie Stewart, University of Utah, “Fiction over Facts: How competing narrative forms explain policy in a new immigration destination,” The Sociological Forum 27(3):591–616. 2012.
The Section on International Migration’s Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book Award
2024: Ulrike Bialas, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Forever 17: Coming of Age in the German Asylum System. University of Chicago Press. 2023.
2024 Honorable Mention: Asad L. Asad, Stanford University, Engage & Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life. Princeton University Press. 2023.
2023: Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University, The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration. Oxford University Press. 2022.
2023 Honorable Mention: Phi Hong Su, Williams College, The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin. Stanford University Press. 2022.
2022: Rebecca Hamlin, Rebecca. Crossing – How We Label and React to People on the Move. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 2021.
2022 Honorable Mention: Emine Fidan Elcioglu. 2020. Divided by the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration Politics at the U.S. Mexico Border. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2020.
2021: Tahseen Shams, Here, There, and Elsewhere The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World, Stanford University Press , 2020
2021 Honorable Mention: Rocío Rosales, Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2020
2021 Honorable Mention: Edward Telles and Christina Sue, Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core, Oxford University Press, 2019
2020: David Fitzgerald, UCSD, Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers. Oxford University Press. 2019.
2020: Angela García, The University of Chicago, Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law. University of California Press. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: María Rendón, UC Irvine, Stagnant Dreamers: How the Inner City Shapes the Integration of Second-Generation Latinos. Russell Sage Foundation. 2019.
2020 Honorable Mention: Tod Hamilton, Princeton University, Immigration and the Remaking of Black America. Russell Sage Foundation. 2019.
2019: Héctor Carrilo, Northwestern University, Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men. University of Chicago Press. 2017.
2019 Honorable Mention: Abigail Andrews, University of California, San Diego, Undocumented Politics: Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants. University of California Press. 2018.
2019 Honorable Mention: Neda Nagbouleh, University of Toronto, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race. Stanford University Press. 2017.
2018: Anju Mary Paul, Yale-NUS College, Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
2018 Honorable Mention: Angel Adams Parham, Loyola University, New Orleans, American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race. Oxford University Press. 2017.
2017: Jaeeun Kim, Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea. Stanford University Press. 2016.
2017 Honorable Mention: Richard Alba and Nancy Foner, Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe. Princeton University Press. 2015.
2017 Honorable Mention: Roberto Gonzalez, Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America. University of California Press. 2016.
2016: Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou, The Asian American Achievement Paradox. Russell Sage Foundation. 2015.
2016 Honorable Mention: Frank Bean, Susan Brown, and James Bachmeier, Parents Without Papers: The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration. Russell Sage Foundation. 2015.
2016 Honorable Mention: Katharine Donato and Donna Gabaccia, Gender and International Migration: From the Slavery Era to the Global Age. Russell Sage Foundation. 2015.
2015: David Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martín, Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas. Harvard University Press. 2014.
2015 Honorable Mention: Leisy J. Abrego, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders. Stanford University Press. 2014.
2015 Honorable Mention: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens. University of California Press. 2014.
2014: David A. Cook-Martin, Grinnell College, The Scramble for Citizens: Dual Nationality and State Competition for Immigrants. Stanford University Press. 2013.
2014 Honorable Mention: Shannon Gleeson, Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston. Cornell University Press. 2012.
2013: Cybelle Fox, University of California, Berkeley, Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. Princeton University Press. 2012.
2012: Natasha Warikoo, Harvard University, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City. University of California Press. 2011.
2011: Joanna Dreby, Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children. University of California Press. 2010.
2011 Honorable Mention: Pyong Gap Min, Preserving Ethnicity through Religion in America. NYU Press. 2010.
2010: Ruben Hernandez-Leon, Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans to the United States. University of California Press. 2008.
2010 Honorable Mention: Anny Bakalian and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond. University of California Press. 2009.
2009: Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, Mary Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway, Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. Russell Sage Foundation. 2008.
2009 Honorable Mention: Rubén Hernández-León, Metropolitan Migrants: The Migration of Urban Mexicans in the United States. University of California Press. 2008.
2009 Honorable Mention: Eddie Telles and Vilma Ortiz, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race. Russell Sage Foundation. 2009.
2008: Ivan Light, Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles. Russell Sage Foundation. 2006.
2008 Honorable Mention: Irene Bloemraad, Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in The United States and Canada. University of California Press. 2006.
2007: Dowell Myers, Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America. Russell Sage Foundation. 2007.
2007 Honorable Mention: Christian Zlolniski, Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley. University of California Press. 2006.
2006: Robert Courtney Smith, Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New immigrants. University of California Press. 2005.
2006 Honorable Mention: Margaret Chin, Hunter College, Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry. Columbia University Press. 2005.
2005: Yen Le Espiritu, Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities and Countries. University of California Press. 2003.
2005 Honorable Mention: Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson, Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in the United States. Russell Sage Foundation. 2004.
2004: Richard Alba and Victor Nee, Remaking the American Mainstream : Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration. Harvard University Press. 2003.
2004 Honorable Mention: Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter, How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor. University of California Press. 2003.
2004 Honorable Mention: Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration. Russell Sage Foundation. 2002.
2003: Steven J. Gold, The Israeli Diaspora. University of Washington Press. 2002.
2003 Honorable Mention: Jennifer Lee, Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews and Koreans in Urban America. Harvard University Press. 2002.
2002: Alejandro Portes, Princeton University, Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine, Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. University of California Press. 2001.
2002 Honorable Mention: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence. University of California Press. 2001.
2002 Honorable Mention: Peggy Levitt, Transnational Villagers. University of California Press. 2001.
2001: Mary C. Waters, Harvard University, Black Identities: West Indian Dreams and American Realities. Harvard University Press. 1999.
2001 Honorable Mention: Cecilia Menjivar, Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America. University of California Press. 2000.
2000: Charles Hirschman, University of Washington, Josh De Wind, Social Science Research Council, and Philiph Kasinitz, Hunter College, Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience. Russell Sage Foundation. 1999.
2000 Honorable Mention: Jeff Reitz, The Warmth of the Welcome. Westview Press. 1998.
2000 Honorable Mention: Saskia Sassen, Guests and Aliens. W.W Norton. 1999.
1999: Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles, and Carl L. Bankston, III, University of Southwest Louisiana, Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States. Russell Sage Foundation. 1998.
1998: Award not given
1997: Roger Waldinger, University of California, Los Angeles, and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York, Ethnic Los Angeles. Russell Sage Foundation. 1996.
1997 Honorable Mention: Ewa Morawska, Insecure Prosperity : Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940. Princeton University Press. 1997.
1996: Philip Kasinitz, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University New York, Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race. Cornell University Press. 1992.
1996: Ellen Oxfeld, Middlebury College, Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community. Cornell University Press. 1993.
