A Companion to American Immigration (eBook)

Reed Ueda (Herausgeber)

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2011 | 1. Auflage
584 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4443-9165-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A Companion to American Immigration is an authoritative
collection of original essays by leading scholars on the major
topics and themes underlying American immigration history.

* Focuses on the two most important periods in American
Immigration history: the Industrial Revolution (1820-1930) and the
Globalizing Era (Cold War to the present)

* Provides an in-depth treatment of central themes, including
economic circumstances, acculturation, social mobility, and
assimilation

* Includes an introductory essay by the volume editor.

Autor

Reed Ueda is Professor of History at Tufts University. He is the author of Postwar Immigrant America: A Social History (1994).

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction 1

Reed Ueda

Part I Policy and Politics

1 A Nation of Immigrants and a Gatekeeping Nation: American
Immigration Law and Policy 5

Erika Lee

2 Naturalization and Nationality 36

Irene Bloemraad and Reed Ueda

3 Immigration and Ethnic Politics 58

James J. Connolly

4 Immigrant Transnationals and US Foreign Relations 77

Xiao-huang Yin and Peter H. Koehn

5 Bodies from Abroad: Immigration, Health, and Disease 106

Alan M. Kraut

6 The Politics of Immigration and the Rise of the Migration
State: Comparative and Historical Perspectives 132

James F. Hollifield

Part II Ethnicity , Race , and Nation

7 Ethnic and Racial Identity 161

Marilyn Halter

8 Nativism and Prejudice Against Immigrants 177

Tyler Anbinder

9 Assimilation and American National Identity 202

Michael R. Olneck

10 Internationalization and Transnationalization 225

David Gerber

11 Immigration and Race Relations 255

Jeffrey Melnick

Part III Population and Society

12 Demography and American Immigration 277

Michael S. Teitelbaum

13 Gender and Immigration 289

Suzanne M. Sinke

14 Immigrant Residential and Mobility Patterns 309

Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller

15 Characteristics of Immigrants to the United States:
1820-2003 328

Guillermina Jasso and Mark R. Rosenzweig

16 Marriage Patterns in Historical Perspective: Gender and
Ethnicity 359

Robert McCaa, Albert Esteve, and Clara Cortina

Part IV Economy and Society

17 Immigrant Social Mobility and the Historian 373

Kenneth A. Scherzer

18 Labor and Immigration History: First Principles 394

Leon Fink

19 Immigration in the Economy: Development and Enterprise
409

Nian-Sheng Huang

20 Immigrants in the American Housing Market 424

Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller

Part V Culture and Community

21 Immigration and American Diversity: Food for Thought
443

Donna R. Gabaccia

22 Immigration and Language 471

Nancy C. Carnevale

23 Immigration and Education in the United States 492

Paula S. Fass

24 Religion and Ethnicity 513

John McClymer

25 Mutual Aid Societies and Fraternal Orders 528

Daniel Soyer

Index 547

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.3.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Ethnic & Immigration History • Ethnische Geschichte u. Einwanderungsgeschichte der USA • Geschichte • History • USA /Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-4443-9165-8 / 1444391658
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4443-9165-7 / 9781444391657