Across generations
Subtitle: immigrant families in America
By: Nancy Foner.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780814727706; 9780814727713
Subjects: Family -- United States; Immigrant families -- United States -- Social conditions; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Description: Immigrants and their American-born children represent about one quarter of the United States population. Drawing on rich, in-depth ethnographic research, the fascinating case studies in Across Generations examine the intricacies of relations between the generations in a broad range of immigrant groups - from Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa - and give a sense of what everyday life is like in immigrant families. Moving beyond the cliche of the children of immigrants engaging in pitched battles against tradition-bound parents from the old country, these vivid essays offer a nuanced view that brings out the ties that bind the generations as well as the tensions that divide them. Tackling key issues like parental discipline, marriage choices, educational and occupational expectations, legal status, and transnational family ties, Across Generations brings crucial insights to our understanding of the United States as a nation of immigrants.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Migration in comparative perspective; title: The social construction of race in two immigrant eras; title: Immigrants and African americans; title: Transnationalism old and new; title: Immigrant women and work, then and now; title: Being black in London and New York : the Caribbean experience; title: Place matters : comparative perspectives on the west Indian migrant experience; title: Gendered transitions : Jamaican women in New York and London; title: How exceptional is New York? Immigration in urban America; title: Immigration past and present : some U.S.-Europe comparisons.