Immigrant America

A Portrait
Fifth Auflage, Updated and Expanded
ISBN: 978-0-520-39629-6
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 520 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Portes, Alejandro

Rumbaut, Ruben G.

Rumbaut, Rubén G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.