Immigrant America a portrait / Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut.

Author/creator Portes, Alejandro, 1944-
Other author Rumbaut, Rubén G.
Format Electronic
EditionFifth edition, updated and expanded.
Publication InfoOakland, California : University of California Press, [2024]
Descriptionpages cm
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Subjects

Contents The four phases of U.S.-bound immigration -- Theoretical overview -- Moving : patterns of immigrant settlement and spatial mobility -- Making it in America : education, occupation, and entrepreneurship -- From immigrants to ethnics : identity, citizenship, and political participation -- Language : diversity and resilience -- The new second generation -- Religion : the enduring presence -- Conclusion.
Abstract "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 their incorporation within American society. With the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political, regional, linguistic and religious aspects of immigration, offers detailed analyses of the adaptation process experienced by the adult second generation of the children of immigrants, and adds an updated and expanded concluding chapter on the changing policy regimes under which immigration has taken place and continues to do so at present"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2023025310
ISBN9780520396289 (cloth)
ISBN9780520396296 (paperback)
ISBN(ebook)

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