Immigrant America
Subtitle: a portrait
By: Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut
Contributors: Rumbaut, Rubén G., author
Edition: Fourth edition, revised, updated, and expanded.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780520274020
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Immigrants; Americanization; History
Description: "This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the role of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation. This revised edition includes new chapters on theories of migration and on the history of U.S.-bound migration from the late nineteenth century to the present, offering an updated and expanded concluding chapter on immigration and public policy."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-473) and index.
Table of contents: title: The three phases of U.S.-bound immigration; title: Theoretical overview; title: Moving : patterns of immigrant settlement and spatial mobility; title: Making it in America : education, occupation, and entrepreneurship; title: From immigrants to ethnics : identity, citizenship, and political participation; title: Language : diversity and resilience; title: Growing up American : the new second generation; title: Religion : the enduring presence; title: Conclusion : immigration and public policy.