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Immigrant America

A Portrait
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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2024

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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.

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Portes Alejandro :

Alejandro Portes is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Princeton University and Research Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. Rubén G. Rumbaut is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and founding chair of the American Sociological Association’s International Migration Section. They are the coauthors of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and coeditors of Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Illustrations

    ix
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    List of Tables

    xi
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    Preface to the Fifth Edition

    xv
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    Preface to the Fourth Edition

    xix
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    Preface to the Third Edition

    xxii
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    Preface to the Second Edition

    xxv
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    Preface to the First Edition

    xxviii
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    Acknowledgments for the Fifth Edition

    xxxi
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    Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition

    xxxiii
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    Acknowledgments for the Third Edition

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    Acknowledgments for the Second Edition

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    Acknowledgments for the First Edition

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    1. The Four Phases of U.S.-Bound Immigration

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    2. Theoretical Overview

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    3. Moving: Patterns of Immigrant Settlement and Spatial Mobility

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    4. Making It in America: Education, Occupation, and Entrepreneurship

    114
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    5. From Immigrants to Ethnics: Identity, Citizenship, and Political Participation

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    6. Language: Diversity and Resilience

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    7. The New Second Generation

    254
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    8. Religion: The Enduring Presence

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    9. Conclusion

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    Notes

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    References

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    Index

    457
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April 9, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9780520396302
Edition:
5th edition
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520
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https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520396302
eBook ISBN: 9780520396302
Keywords for this book
21st century american immigration; immigrant settlement; asylum seekers; refugees; assimilation; history of global migration; political participation; citizenship; identity; textbook; Entrepreneurship; bilingual; us labor market; nativism; Forced assimilationists
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