Immigrant America: A Portrait
Portes, Alejandro; Rumbaut, Rubà n G.
ISBN 10: 0520274024 ISBN 13: 9780520274020
Editorial: University of California Press, 2014
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Sinopsis:
This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the role of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation. This revised edition includes new chapters on theories of migration and on the history of U.S. - bound migration from the late nineteenth century to the present, offering an updated and expanded concluding chapter on immigration and public policy.
Acerca del autor: Alejandro Portes is Professor of Sociology and founding director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University and Research Professor at the University of Miami. Ruben G. Rumbaut is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and founding chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association. They are the coauthors of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and coeditors of Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America.
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Detalles bibliográficos
Título: Immigrant America: A Portrait
Editorial: University of California Press
Año de publicación: 2014
Encuadernación: Paperback
Condición: Very Good
Condición de la sobrecubierta: No Jacket
Edición: 4ª Edición