How does immigration transform societies and relations between ethnic and racial groups? This volume brings together scholars working at the cutting-edge of theory and empirical research on integration and assimilation in the US and Europe. It is dedicated to the life and works of Richard Alba, who has done so much to re-invigorate and establish ideas about integration and assimilation.

The book aims to open a dialogue on the continuing value of assimilation and integration for studying social change in an era of increasing ethno-racial diversity in Western liberal democracies. Assimilation and integration, and the understandings of societal change that they theorise, depict, and empirically study, remain a contested terrain that is open for critical re-evaluation. This insightful volume offers a set of expert scholarly contributions, including contributions from Richard Alba himself, that tease out critical junctures and disagreements, in the belief that this collective effort can provide insights about where the future research agenda needs to go.

Re-thinking Assimilation and Integration will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of sociology, ethnic and racial studies, international politics, and migration studies. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2024

ISBN

9781040105696

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Ethnic Studies

Index

Social Sciences

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Introduction: Assimilation and integration in the twenty-first century: where have we been and where are we going?
1 Culture’s role in assimilation and integration: the expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture
2 ‘People of Color’ as a category and identity in the United States
3 The Asian American assimilation paradox
4 Becoming white or becoming mainstream? Defining the endpoint of assimilation
5 Immigration and the transformation of American society: politics, the economy, and popular culture
6 Cultural adaptation and demographic change: evidence from Mexican-American naming patterns after the California Gold Rush
7 Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?
8 Immigration theory between assimilation and discrimination
9 Challenging the Muslimification of Muslims in research on ‘liberal democratic values’: why culture matters beyond religion
10 Relational integration: from integrating migrants to integrating social relations
11 Integration into diversity theory renewing – once again – assimilation theory
12 Re-thinking assimilation and why it matters: an intellectual, career and life journey – Richard Alba in conversation with Paul Statham
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