Remaking the American mainstream : assimilation and contemporary immigration /

In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first system...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Alba, Richard D.
Otros Autores: Nee, Victor, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Temas:
Americanization.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Américanisation.
Immigrants > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
Americanization
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Immigrants > Social conditions
Amerikanisierung
Soziale Situation
Einwanderung
Akkulturation
Immigranten.
Assimilatie (sociologie)
Sociale situatie.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
United States
USA
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Rethinking assimilation
  • Assimilation theory, old and new
  • Assimilation in practice : the Europeans and East Asians
  • Was assimilation contingent on specific historical conditions?
  • The background to contemporary immigration
  • Evidence of contemporary assimilation
  • Remaking the mainstream.

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