In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the nature of in-
tergenerational relationships in immigrant families, especially between
immigrant parents and their children, many of whom were born and
largely raised in the United States. This review begins with an anal-
ysis of the causes of tension and conflict as well as accommodation
and cooperation between parents and children in immigrant families
in the contemporary United States. We then examine what happens
when parents and children are separated in transnational families—why
this pattern occurs today and how it affects family relationships. We
provide a historical-comparative perspective, discussing what is new
about parent-child relations in immigrant families today in contrast to
a century ago in the last great wave of immigration to the United States.
Finally, a cross-national view reveals the different emphases in the social
science literature on intergenerational relations in immigrant families
in the United States and western Europe.