Where We Live Now - Immigration and Race in the United States

Zusatztext "The book is lucid and well structured." Informationen zum Autor John Iceland is Professor of Sociology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University and the author of Poverty in America: A Handbook (UC Press). Klappentext 97379761 Zusammenfassung Explores the ways in which immigration is reshaping American neighborhoods. Examining residential segregation patterns, this title addresses these questions: what evidence suggests that immigrants are assimilating residentially? And does the assimilation process change for immigrants of different racial and ethnic backgrounds? Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Historical Overview and Theories of Immigrant Spatial Incorporation 3. Immigration! Diversity! and Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation 4. Immigrant Residential Segregation 5. Hispanic Segregation and the Multiple Forms of Residential Assimilation in Metropolitan America 6. Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Residential Segregation 7. Conclusion Appendix A: Methods of Measuring Segregation and Methodological Details of Analyses Appendix B: Additional Tables and Figures Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: John Iceland, Iceland John
• Assisted by: John Iceland (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.03.2009
• EAN: 9780520257634
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25763-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, United States of America, USA, Population & demography, Population and Demography