Abstract
NEWS ABOUT IMMIGRATION AND ethnicity is everywhere in 2016—in the current US presidential campaign, in the ongoing European refugee crisis, in the United Kingdom’s “Brexit” referendum, and even in Broadway musicals. Daily we are faced with public discussions about immigration and its attendant issues of ethnicity, religion, and race. Invariably, the anxieties underlying these discussions refl ect the enduring concerns of a diverse society: How and why do people migrate? How can receiving nations or localities best respond to the needs of displaced people? How are newcomers integrated into new or existing communities of settlement? In what ways do they transform these communities? How do people from different cultural backgrounds and identities coexist, interact, and fl ourish together, and on what terms?