Immigrant America

A Portrait

Prof. Alejandro Portes,Prof. Rubén G. Rumbaut

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Jahr: 2024
• ISBN:
  9780520396302
• Auflage: 5
• Thema: Ciencias sociales
• Thema: Emigración e inmigración

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants' incorporation within American society. With the latest available data, Immigrant America further explores the economic, political, regional, linguistic, and religious aspects of immigration. It offers detailed analyses of the adaptation process experienced by adult children of immigrants and adds an updated and expanded concluding chapter on changing immigration policy regimes both past and present.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• Preface to the Fifth Edition
• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Acknowledgments for the Fifth Edition
• Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition
• Acknowledgments for the Third Edition
• Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
• Acknowledgments for the First Edition
• 1. The Four Phases of U.S.-Bound Immigration
• 2. Theoretical Overview
• 3. Moving: Patterns of Immigrant Settlement and Spatial Mobility
• 4. Making It in America: Education, Occupation, and Entrepreneurship
• 5. From Immigrants to Ethnics: Identity, Citizenship, and Political Participation
• 6. Language: Diversity and Resilience
• 7. The New Second Generation
• 8. Religion: The Enduring Presence
• 9. Conclusion
• Notes
• References
• Index