New American Destinies
Subtitle: A Reader in Contemporary Asian and Latino Immigration
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 19, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415917698
First sentence: Those apt and emotive words may serve as an epigraph for America at the end of the twentieth century, a land of rapid contrasts being again transformed by new waves of immigration that rival those of the tumultuous era before World War I.
Description: The descriptive and analytic essays contained in New American Destinies provide a much needed overview of the historical and contemporary dimensions of Asian and Latino immigration. The contributors address policy issues and themes such as the political and economic context of migration, theories of migration, job competition, labor organization, changing ethnic and race relations, gender and family, immigrant labor, and California's Proposition 187.

New American Destinies will serve as an invaluable resource for both the specialist and the informed reader seeking a theoretically grounded and historically rich account of immigration, race, and ethnicity in an increasingly diverse society.