Introduction- Ethnogenesis: coming of age in immigrant America / Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes -- The demographic diversity of immigrants and their children / Leif Jensen -- Mexican Americans: a second generation at risk / David E. López and Ricardo D. Stanton-Salazar -- Growing up in Cuban Miami: immigration, the enclave, and new generations / Lisandro Pérez -- Nicaraguans: voices lost, voices found / Patricia Fernández-Kelly and Sara Curran -- The paradox of assimilation: children of Filipino immigrants in San Diego / Yen Le Espiritu and Diane L. Wolf -- Straddling different worlds: the acculturation of Vietnamese refugee children / Min Zhou -- Shifting identities and intergenerational conflict: growing up Haitian in Miami / Alex Stepick ... [et al.] -- Fade to black? The children of West Indian immigrants in southern Florida / Philip Kasinitz, Juan Battle, Inés Miyares -- Conclusion- The forging of a new America: lessons for theory and policy / Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut.