Remaking the American mainstream
Subtitle: assimilation and contemporary immigration
By: Richard Alba and Victor Nee.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Description: "In this era of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation - that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time - seems outdated. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past."--BOOK JACKET.