Immigrant America (eBook)

A Portrait

Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut (Autoren)

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2024 | 5. Auflage
520 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520396302 (ISBN)

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This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants' incorporation within American society.

With the latest available data, Immigrant America further explores the economic, political, regional, linguistic, and religious aspects of immigration. It offers detailed analyses of the adaptation process experienced by adult children of immigrants and adds an updated and expanded concluding chapter on changing immigration policy regimes both past and present.
 

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
List of Tables 
Preface to the Fifth Edition 
Preface to the Fourth Edition 
Preface to the Third Edition 
Preface to the Second Edition 
Preface to the First Edition 
Acknowledgments for the Fifth Edition 
Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition 
Acknowledgments for the Third Edition 
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition 
Acknowledgments for the First Edition 

1. The Four Phases of U.S.-Bound Immigration 
2. Theoretical Overview 
3. Moving: Patterns of Immigrant Settlement and Spatial Mobility 
4. Making It in America: Education, Occupation, and Entrepreneurship 
5. From Immigrants to Ethnics: Identity, Citizenship, and Political Participation 
6. Language: Diversity and Resilience 
7. The New Second Generation 
8. Religion: The Enduring Presence 
9. Conclusion 

Notes 
References 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.4.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Schlagworte: 21st century american immigration • assimilation • asylum seekers • Bilingual • Citizenship • Entrepreneurship • Forced assimilationists • history of global migration • Identity • immigrant settlement • nativism • Political participation • Refugees • Textbook • US Labor Market
• ISBN-13: 9780520396302 / 9780520396302