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Adhesive adaptation is conceptualized as a particular mode of adaptation in which certain aspects of the new culture and social relations with members of the host society are added on to the immigrants' traditional culture and social networks, without replacing or modifying any significant part of the old. In light of this conceptual framework, various patterns of Korean immigrants' adaptation in the U.S. are examined. For data collection, 615 Korean immigrants in the Los Angeles area were interviewed in 1979. Findings indicate that the immigrants' strong and pervasive ethnic attachment is unaffected by their length of residence in the U.S., socioeconomic status and cultural and social assimilation rates. The adhesive mode of adaptation is thus empirically confirmed by this study. Theoretical and practical implications of this adhesive adaptation are discussed in the conclusion.

This note has two objectives. One is to provide a brief overview of quantitative estimates of Colombian emigration, including formal attempts to estimate the volume of net emigration. The second objective is to update the existing estimates with more recent data (in a highly speculative fashion). The goals of the note are modest. We attempt to summarize existing evidence while providing a brief discussion of how the estimates were preapred. Some of the estimates we discuss involve a very laborious methodology impossible to summarize in a few paragraphs. The ultimate goal of the exercise is to derive a "plausible" estimate of the extent of Colombian net emigration in 1980, although no claim is made that this estimate is correct or final. A more definitive estimate will not be available until after the careful and detailed evaluation of the 1980 round of censuses, although even these data will fail to yield answers to many questions related to the volume of Colombian emigration.

This article provides some empirical information pertaining to the benefits and costs of foreign labor to Singapore and subjects to critical analysis some of Pang and Lim's hypotheses concerning the costs of labor importation presented in a previous article in this journal. The article concludes with a discussion of the real cost to Malaysia of Singapore's labor importation policies and its potential for disruption of Malaysia's development plans.