SECTION I: GENERAL TOPICS.

The article presents information on various research papers related to migration of ethnic groups, published in an earlier issue of the journal "International Migration Review". "Hansen's Law of 'Third-Generation Return' and the Study of American Religio-Ethnic Groups," by E.I. Bender and G. Kagiwada takes note of the divergences as well as the convergences in a critical body of speculation, theory and empirical research on religio-ethnic patterns of identification, acculturation and assimilation. "L'integrazione socio-culturale degli immigrati," by Elio Caranti illustrates the criteria followed in the formulation of the program carried out by the Italian Committee for the Study of Population Problems in 1966. It also gives the first results of theoretical and field research concerning the immigrants' socio-cultural integration which reveals that the fundamental constant on migrations is the subjective stimulus that press an individual or a large group of individuals to find better labor conditions and a higher standard of living. "Crime and Migration," by Franco Ferracuti. In the United States the criminality of migrant workers was one of the most popular areas of study in criminology in the first half of the century. In this study, it is shown that the theory which attributed the increase in crime rates to migration was untenable.