Crossings - Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives

In the United States immigration is both history and destiny. It is the driving force behind a most significant social transformation taking place in American society at the end of our millennium. Arguably few other social phenomena are likely to impact the future character of American culture and society as much as the ongoing wave of "new immigration."
Who are the new immigrants? What do they want? How are they changing American society? This cross-disciplinary book brings together twelve essays by the leading scholars of the most significant aspect of the new immigration: Mexican immigration to the United States. "Crossings" theorizes aspects of recent Mexican immigration that are new and that demarcate this wave of immigration from earlier experiences in this century.

About the author

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco is Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Distinguished Professor of Education, and Co-Director of the Institute for Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

Few other social phenomena are likely to impact the future character of American society as much as the ongoing wave of “new immigration.” This cross-disciplinary book brings together twelve essays by leading scholars of the most significant aspect of the new immigration: Mexican immigration to the U.S.

Product details

• Authors: David Rockefeller Center for Latin Ameri, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
• Assisted by: Marcelo Suarez-Orozco (Editor), Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco (Editor), Marcelo M. Surez-Orozco (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1998
• EAN: 9780674177673
• ISBN: 978-0-674-17767-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Weight: 925 g
• Illustrations: 12 halftones, 25 line drawings, 20 tables
• Series: Latin American Studies; Series on Latin American Studies; Series in Latin American Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research