Daily Life of the New Americans - Immigration Since 1965

Informationen zum Autor Christoph Strobel teaches classes in world, non-Western, and Native American history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA. Klappentext A detailed and engaging historical examination that provides an intimate understanding of the daily life of the new immigrants in the United States. In the last decades, a growing number of immigrants from around the world have arrived in the United States. Daily Life of the New Americans: Immigration since 1965 provides a thematic overview of their everyday lives and underscores the diversity and complexity of the newcomer experience. Organized into six thematic chapters, the book examines how immigrants from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe are changing the face of the American nation, and, at the same time, are themselves being changed by living in America. The stories told here are enhanced through the use of oral histories that bring immigrant experiences vividly to life. Zusammenfassung A detailed and engaging historical examination that provides an intimate understanding of the daily life of the new immigrants in the United States. In the last decades! a growing number of immigrants from around the world have arrived in the United States.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Christoph Strobel, Strobel Christoph
• Editore: Greenwood Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780313363139
• ISBN: 978-0-313-36313-9
• Pagine: 192
• Serie: Daily Life; Daily Life Through History; Daily Life through History; Daily Life
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, Migration, Einwanderung und Auswanderung, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, History of the Americas, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Race and Ethnicity