Alejandro Portes

TL;DR: Results show that would-be Haitian refugees arriving in South Florida during the early 1980s had relatively small needs for mental health care, but whatever needs they had were largely unattended by the health services system.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed sociological theories of development and their predictive successes and failures and highlighted the significant role of population characteristics class structure and the character of the state in accounting for these trends with particular attention to countries and communities in Latin America.

TL;DR: The Informal Economy as discussed by the authors is the first book to bring together studies from all three settings and to integrate them into a coherent theoretical framework, showing that it is not solely a province of the poor.

TL;DR: This paper examined the situation of two recently arrived and disadvantaged immigrant groups in the context of two competing theoretical traditions: classical assimilation and recent labor market segmentation theories and found that employment in the ethnic enclave is associated with positive returns comparable to those of entry into the "primary" labor market.

TL;DR: A review of the different perspectives from which the problem of national development has been approached by sociology can be found in this article, where the main trend noted is movement from earlier extrapolations of theories based on the unique European experience to more historically grounded analyses.