What's New about the new Immigration to the U.S.?
Subtitle: traditions and transformations in the United States since 1965
By: edited by Marilyn Halter, Marilynn S. Johnson, Katheryn P. Viens, and Conrad Edick Wright
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781137483867
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; History; Government policy; Immigrants; Ethnic groups; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Description: "Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. Whereas the previous system (itself based on the Immigration Act of 1924) limited newcomers and gave priority to applicants from northwestern Europe, the 1965 measure eliminated national quotas and took into account education, jobs, and professional. As a result, the national and ethnic profile of immigrants to the U.S. changed dramatically, including large numbers of arrivals from the Caribbean, Central America, South America, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to probe this subject, considering what is genuinely new about post-1965 immigration (both documented and undocumented), and what continuities have persisted. The result is a rich and nuanced portrait of American society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, one that has been defined not simply by the fortunes of postwar liberalism, but also by the fall of the Soviet Union and the War on Terrorism"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: Marilyn Halter and Christopher Capozzola; title: PART I: THE CITY; title: 1. 'The Metropolitan Diaspora: New Immigrants in Greater Boston; Marilynn S. Johnson; title: 2. Racializing Latinos in the Nuevo South: Immigrants, Legal Status, and the State in Atlanta; Mary Odem and Irene Browne; title: 3. The Politics of Place in Immigrant and Receiving Communities; Domenic Vitiello; title: PART II: SELF; title: 4. 'Intergenerational Relations in Immigrant Families: Comparisons across Time and Space; Nancy Foner; title: 5. Bosnians in Search of Community: Keeping Faith and Ethnicity Alive in Boston; Kristen Lucken; title: 6. The Ties that Bind: Kinship, Religion, and Community among Nigerian Immigrants in the U.S.; Veronica McComb; title: PART III: SOCIETY; title: 7. 'Engaging the Public Sphere: The Civic and Political Incorporation of Post-1965 Indian Immigrants; Caroline Brettell; title: 8. Chinese American Participation in Transnational Activities and U.S.-China Relations; Xiao-huang Yin; title: 9. U.S. Refugee Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Balancing Humanitarian Obligations and Security Concerns; Maria Cristina Garci;a; title: 10. Immigration Politics, Service Labor, and the Problem of the Undocumented Worker in Southern California; Thomas Jessen Adams.