The New Americans : : A Guide to Immigration since 1965 / / ed. by Reed Ueda, Mary C. Waters, Helen B. Marrow.

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• MitwirkendeR: Alba, Richard,; Bankston, Carl L.,; Bean, Frank D.,; Bozorgmehr, Mehdi,; Camarillo, Albert M.,; Chinchilla, Norma Stoltz,; Choy, Catherine Ceniza,; Eck, Diana L.,; Erdmans, Mary Patrice,; Espitia, Marilyn,; Estrada, Vanesa,; Foner, Nancy,; Gabaccia, Donna R.,; Gans, Herbert J.,; Gold, Steven J.,; Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo,; Haines, David W.,; Halter, Marilyn,; Hamilton, Nora,; Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette,; Hochschild, Jennifer L.,; Holdaway, Jennifer,; Holder, Calvin B.,; Ispa-Landa, Simone,; Jones-Correa, Michael,; Kasinitz, Philip,; Kaushal, Neeraj,; Kibria, Nazli,; Konczal, Lisa,; Kusow, Abdi,; Lee, Karen Ka-man,; Leonard, Karen Isaksen,; Levitt, Peggy,; Logan, John R.,; Lowell, B. Lindsay,; López, David,; Marrow, Helen B.,; Menjívar, Cecilia,; Min, Pyong Gap,; Morawska, Ewa,; Nee, Victor,; Oishi, Nana,; Perlmann, Joel,; Pessar, Patricia R.,; Pérez, Lisandro,; Reimers, Cordelia W.,; Reimers, David M.,; Roth, Wendy D.,; Rumbaut, Rubén G.,; Schuck, Peter H.,; Small, Cathy A.,; Stepick, Alex,; Suárez-Orozco, Carola,; Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo,; Ueda, Reed,; Vickerman, Milton,; Viswanath, K.,; Waldinger, Roger,; Waters, Mary C.,; Yin, Xiao-huang,; Zolberg, Aristide R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Marrow, Helen B.,; Ueda, Reed,; Waters, Mary C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard University Press Reference Library
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (736 p.)

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, shaped by successive waves of new arrivals. This comprehensive guide, edited and written by an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars, provides an authoritative account of the most recent surge of immigrants. Based on the latest U.S. C...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Immigration in Global Historical Perspective
• Immigration Control Policy: Law and Implementation
• Citizenship and Nationality Policy
• Refugees
• Unauthorized Migration
• Settlement Patterns in Metropolitan America
• Ethnic and Racial Identity
• Intermarriage and Multiple Identities
• Assimilation
• Transforming Foreigners into Americans
• Transnationalism
• Pluralism and Group Relations
• Immigrants and the Economy
• Ethnic Politics
• Ethnic Media
• Religion
• Language
• Education
• Gender and Family
• The Second Generation
• Africa: West
• Africa: East
• Africa: South Africa and Zimbabwe
• Canada
• Central America. Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
• China: People's Republic of China
• China: Outside the People's Republic of China
• Colombia
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• El Salvador
• Europe: Central and Southeastern. Bulgaria, Former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Former Yugoslavia
• Haiti
• India
• Iran
• Jamaica
• Korea
• Mexico
• Middle East and North Africa
• Pacific: Fiji, Tonga, Samoa
• Pacific: Japan, Australia, New Zealand
• Philippines
• Poland
• Russia
• South America. Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela
• South Asia. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal
• Southeast Asia. Laos, Cambodia, Thailand
• United Kingdom
• Vietnam
• West Indies. Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, St. Kitts, Trinidad
• Appendix: Immigration and Naturalization Legislation
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index