Strangers No More (eBook)

Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe

Richard Alba, Nancy Foner (Autoren)

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2015
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6590-1 (ISBN)

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Richard Alba is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books include Blurring the Color Line and Remaking the American Mainstream. Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include From Ellis Island to JFK and In a New Land.

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An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and CanadaStrangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries-France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands-and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This systematic, data-rich comparison reveals their progress and the barriers they face in an array of institutions-from labor markets and neighborhoods to educational and political systems-and considers the controversial questions of religion, race, identity, and intermarriage.Richard Alba and Nancy Foner shed new light on questions at the heart of concerns about immigration. They analyze why immigrant religion is a more significant divide in Western Europe than in the United States, where race is a more severe obstacle. They look at why, despite fears in Europe about the rise of immigrant ghettoes, residential segregation is much less of a problem for immigrant minorities there than in the United States. They explore why everywhere, growing economic inequality and the proliferation of precarious, low-wage jobs pose dilemmas for the second generation. They also evaluate perspectives often proposed to explain the success of immigrant integration in certain countries, including nationally specific models, the political economy, and the histories of Canada and the United States as settler societies.Strangers No More delves into issues of pivotal importance for the present and future of Western societies, where immigrants and their children form ever-larger shares of the population.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 5 line illus. 15 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • African Americans • African immigrants • Afro-Caribbean • americans • Baby boomers • Bangladeshis • belonging • black ghettoes • black people • Canada • canadians • Career • Christians • Citizenship • Citizenship of the United States • color-coded race • Continental Europe • credential • cultural assimilation • Demographic Transition • Demography • developed country • disadvantage • diverse neighborhoods • economic incorporation • Economic Inequality • economic migration • Economic mobility • economic situations • Economic structures • Education • electoral representation • Employment • ethnic group • Ethnic Origin • exceptionalism • Exclusion • Family reunification • Financial Capital • foreign born • French nationality law • Funding • Germans • ghettoization • Government Policies • Hispanic • Household • Human Capital • human-capital immigrants • Identities • Identity • Ideology • Illegal Immigration • Immigrant children • Immigrant Families • Immigrant Groups • immigrant integration • immigrant minorities • Immigrant neighborhoods • immigrant-origin groups • immigrant politicians • immigrant religion • Immigrants • Immigration • Immigration Law • Immigration Laws • Immigration Policy • Inclusion • income • Institution • Integration • Intermarriage • Italians • Jews • Jus sanguinis • Jus soli • labor force participation • labor market inequality • Latin America • legal segregation • Legislation • local election • low-status immigrants • low-status immigrations • mainstream society • Mexican Americans • mexicans • middle class • Migration • minority group • mixed unions • moroccans • Multiculturalism • Muslims • narrative • national identity • Nationality • nation state • native black population • native-born citizens • Naturalization • new immigrants • Non-Hispanic whites • North America • of education • pakistanis • political inclusion • Political Integration • Political Party • Political representation • Politician • Politics • Population structures • Poverty • Prejudice • Profession • Public housing • Public sphere • Race • racial dynamics • Racial segregation • Racism • Refugee • Religion • religious backgrounds • Republicanism • residence • Residential Segregation • secondary education • Second-generation immigrants • Slavery • Social capital • Social distance • social divide • Social Exclusion • Social mobility • societal institutions • societal membership • societal power • Society • Society of the United States • socioeconomic profile • Sociology • spouse • state school • suburb • Suffrage • Teacher • transnational marriage • Turks in Germany • Unemployment • United States • U.S. civil rights movement • visible minority • welfare • Welfare State • Western Europe • Workforce • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6590-5 / 1400865905
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6590-1 / 9781400865901