2008 WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTION

• Winner: Ivan Light Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles (Russell Sage Foundation)
• Honorable Mention: Irene Bloemraad Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in The United States and Canada (University of California Press)

2007 WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTION

• Winner: Dowell Myers Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America (Russell Sage Foundation)
• Honorable Mention: Christian Zlolniski Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley (University of California Press)

2006 WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTION

• Winner: Robert Courtney Smith Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (University of California Press)
• Honorable Mention: Margaret Chin Sewing Women: Immigrants and the New York City Garment Industry (Columbia University Press)

2005 WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTION

• Winner: Yen Le Espiritu Home Bound: Filipino American Lives Across Cultures, Communities and Countries (University of California Press)
• Honorable Mention: Nancy Foner and George M. Fredrickson Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in the United States (Russell Sage Foundation)

2004 WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTIONS

• Winner: Richard Alba and Victor Nee Rethinking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (Harvard, 2003)
• Honorable Mention: Roger Waldinger and Michael I. Lichter How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor (University of California Press, 2003)
• Honorable Mention: Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand and Nolan J. Malone Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration (Russell Sage Foundation, 2002)

2003 WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTION

• Winner: Steven J. Gold The Israeli Diaspora (University of Washington/Routledge, 2002)
• Honorable Mention: Jennifer Lee Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews and Koreans in Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2002)

2002 WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTIONS

• Winner: Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (University of California Press, 2001)
• Honorable Mention: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Domstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (University of California Press) (University of California Press, 2001)
• Honorable Mention Peggy Levitt Transnational Villagers (University of California Press, 2001)

2001 WINNER

• Winner: Mary C. Waters (editors), Black Identities: West Indian Dreams and American Realities (Harvard, 1999)
• Honorable Mention: Cecilia Menjivar Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America (University of California Press, 2000)

2000 WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTIONS

• Winner: Charles Hirschman, Josh De Wind and Philip Kasinitz (editors), Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience(Russell Sage, 1999)
• Honorable Mention: Jeff Reitz The Warmth of the Welcome (Westview Press, 1998)
• Honorable Mention: Saskia Sassen Guests and Aliens (W.W Norton, 1999)

1999 WINNER

• Winner: Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston, III Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (Russell Sage Foundation, 1998)

1998 AWARD NOT GIVEN

1997 WINNER AND HONORABLE MENTION

• Winner: Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorghmehr (editors), Ethnic Los Angeles (Russell Sage, 1997)
• Honorable Mention: Ewa Morawska Insecure Prosperity : Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940 (Princeton University Press, 1997)

1996 CO-WINNERS

• Philip Kasinitz, Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race (Cornell, 1992)
• Ellen Oxfeld, Blood, Sweat, and Mahjong: Family and Enterprise in an Overseas Chinese Community (Cornell, 1993)