Keys to Successful Immigration - Implications of the New Jersey Experience

List of contents

1. New Jersey in Comparative Perspective Part 1: Demographic Context 2. Comparing Demographic and Labor-Market Characteristics of New Jersey and US Foreign Born 3. Undocumented Immigrants in New Jersey: Numbers, Impacts and Policies 4. Taking the Pulse of Public Opinion towards Immigrants Part 2: Economic, Social and Political Impacts 5. Immigration and the Wages and Employment of US-Born Workers in New Jersey 6. State and Local Fiscal Impacts of New Jersey’s Immigrant and Native Households 7. Immigrant Education in New Jersey: Policies and Practices 8. Effects of Parents’ Place of Birth and Ethnicity on Birth Outcomes in New Jersey 9. Migrants and Settlers: Political Opportunities and Political Behaviours among New Jersey Immigrants Part 3: Processes of Immigrant Adaptation 10. Immigration and Fertility in New Jersey: A Comparison of Native and Foreign-born Women 11. Immigrants’ Earnings and Labor-Market Assimilation: A Case Study of New Jersey 12. Homeownership Attainment of New Jersey Immigrants 13. Segregation by Ethnicity and Immigrant Status in New Jersey 14. Migrants and the Linguistic Ecology of New Jersey.

Summary

Published in 1997, this book focuses on the 1980-1990 experience of a high-immigrant state whose immigrant population matches the race and ethnic composition of the US population as a whole more closely than any other state.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas J. Espenshade, Espenshade Thomas J.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138321694
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32169-4
• No. of pages: 428
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Civil rights & citizenship, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Civics and citizenship, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples