MINORITY AFFAIRS FORUM

Frank Fukuyama discusses immigration and family values. He cites statistics showing that immigration tends to promote family values, with immigrants having lower rates of divorce, illegitimate births, and so on.

Prof. Hsiang-Shui Chen's case studies illustrate a number of aspects of the family lives of Taiwan immigrants.

Several of Norman Matloff's works treat certain aspects of immigrant families, and relations to welfare use:

• How welfare can hasten the breakdown of the traditional Chinese extended family structure. This is ironically reminiscent of the 1965 Moynihan thesis that welfare contributes to the breakdown of African-American families, even though the Chinese case often concerns the financially well-off.

• A more detailed version of the National Review piece, from Matloff's long welfare report.

• A reassessment of whether the family-reunification aspects of our national immigration policy are being used as intended. See also comments on how this policy relates to immigration of elderly parents.

Jean Tepperman's San Francisco Bay Guardian column profiles the family of Cecelia, an illegal immigrant, and how Cecelia projects Proposition 187 will affect them.

A San Francisco Chronicle article focusing on two immigrant families who would be affected by changes in the family-reunification aspects of immigration policy.

A similar article from the San Jose Mercury News.

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