by Alejandro Portes (Author), Alejandro Portes (Author), Rubén G. Rumbaut (Author)
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.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 480
Edition: 4
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 03 Oct 2014
ISBN 10: 0520274024
ISBN 13: 9780520274020