Lau­ra Limon­ic is an assis­tant pro­fes­sor of soci­ol­o­gy at the Col­lege of Old West­bury of the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York. Her research is in the area of con­tem­po­rary immi­gra­tion to the Unit­ed States and the inte­gra­tion tra­jec­to­ries of eth­nic and eth­no-reli­gious groups.