Full Description
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.
Contents
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
