Remaking the American Mainstream - Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration

Informationen zum Autor Richard Alba is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Victor Nee is the Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor at Cornell University, and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society. Klappentext In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience. Surveying a variety of domains--language, socioeconomic attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriage--they demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life. Zusammenfassung As the authors show in the first systematic treatment of the subject since the mid-1960s, assimilation continues to shape the immigrant experience. Surveying a variety of domains—language, socioeconomic attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriage—they demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Rethinking Assimilation 2. Assimilation Theory! New and Old 3. Assimilation in Practice: The Europeans and East Asians 4. Was Assimilation Contingent on Specific Historical Conditions? 5. The Background to Contemporary Immigration 6. Evidence of Contemporary Assimilation 7. Conclusion: Remaking the Mainstream Notes Index

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• Authors: Richard Alba, Richard D. Alba, Richard D. Nee Alba, Richard Nee Alba, Alba Richard, Victor Nee, Nee Victor
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2005
• EAN: 9780674018136
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01813-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / United States / General, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples