ISBN:
161044289X
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9781610442893
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 502 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Hirschman, Charles Handbook of International Migration, The : The American Experience: The American Experience
DDC:
304.8/73
Keywords:
Immigrants
;
United States Emigration and immigration
Abstract:
Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword / Reynolds Farley -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. International Migration and Immigration Research: The State of the Field -- Part I. Theories and Concepts of International Migration -- Chapter 1. Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and Opportunities / Alejandro Portes -- Chapter 2. Why Does Immigration Occur?: A Theoretical Synthesis / Douglas S. Massey -- Chapter 3. The Role of Gender, Households, and Social Networks in the Migration Process: A Review and Appraisal / Patricia R. Pessar
Abstract:
Chapter 4. Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy / Aristide R. Zolberg -- Chapter 5. Transmigrants and Nation-States: Something Old and Something New in the U.S. Immigrant Experience / Nina Glick Schiller -- Chapter 6. Theories of International Migration and Immigration: A Preliminary Reconnaissance of Ideal Types / Charles Hirschman -- Part II. Immigrant Adaptation, Assimilation, and Incorporation -- Chapter 7. Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration / Richard Alba and Victor Nee
Abstract:
Chapter 8. Toward a Reconciliation of ""Assimilation"" and ""Pluralism"": The Interplay of Acculturation and Ethnic Retention / Herbert J. Gans -- Chapter 9. Assimilation and Its Discontents: Ironies and Paradoxes / Ruben G. Rumbaut -- Chapter 10. Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research on the New Second Generation / Min Zhou -- Chapter 11. Social and Linguistic Aspects of Assimilation Today / David E. Lopez -- Chapter 12. Immigrants, Past and Present: A Reconsideration / Joel Perlmann and Roger Waldinger
Abstract:
Chapter 13. Immigrants' Socioeconomic Progress Post-1965: Forging Mobility or Survival? / Rebeca Raijman and Marta Tienda -- Chapter 14. The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes / Nancy Foner -- Part III. The American Response to Immigration -- Chapter 15. Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans / Gary Gerstle -- Chapter 16. Immigration and Political Incorporation in the Contemporary United States / David Plotke -- Chapter 17. Historical Perspectives on the Economic Consequences of Immigration into the United States / Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch
Abstract:
Chapter 18. Immigration and the Receiving Economy / Rachel M. Friedberg and Jennifer Hunt -- Chapter 19. Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants and the Shrinking Welfare State / Thomas J. Espenshade and Gregory A. Huber -- Chapter 20. Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late-Twentieth-Century America / George J. Sanchez -- Chapter 21. Instead of a Sequel, or, How I Lost My Subject / John Higham
Abstract:
Chapter 22. Immigration Reform and the Browning of America: Tensions, Conflicts, and Community Instability in Metropolitan Los Angeles / James H. Johnson Jr., Walter C. Farrell Jr., and Chandra Guinn
Note:
"Multi-User
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-486) and index
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Made available online by Project Muse
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