^{290} Michael Piore, Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979), p. 151.

^{291} Gordon, Assimilation in American Life, p. 190; Thomas Sowell, Migrations and Cultures: A World View, (New York: Basic Books, 1996), p. 48. For an excellent overview and analysis of the successful assimilation of pre-World War II immigrants and their descendants, see Richard Alba and Victor Nee, Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003), chap. 3.

^{292} Samuel p. Huntington, The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), p. 264.

^{293} American Muslim Council, Zogby poll, released 28 August 2000.

^{294} Kambiz Ghanea Bassiri, Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), p. 43–49.

^{295} Corey Michael Spearman, «The Clash of Civilizations in Dearborn, Michigan» (Term paper, Kalamazoo College, Michigan, March 2000), p. 7, quoting Abu Mustafa Al-Bansilwani, «There Has to Be a Better Way — and There Is!», Ummah, I (no. 1, 1999), p. 1–2.

^{296} Daniel Patrick Moynihan, «The Sonnet About the Statue of Liberty», New York, 19 May 1986), p. 58.

^{297} Sowell, Migrations and Cultures, p. 39–40; John C. Harles, Politics in the Lifeboat: Immigrants and the American Democratic Order (Boulder: Westview Press, 1993), p. 99.

^{298} Henri Wéber, quoted in The Economist, 12 February 2000, p. 20.