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The rapid rise in the proportion of foreign-born residents in the United States since the mid-1960s is one of the most important demographic events of the past fifty years. The increase in immigration, especially among the less-skilled and less-educated, has prompted fears that the newcomers may hav...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Card, David E. (David Edward), 1956- (Editor ), Raphael, Steven, 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2013]
Colección:National Poverty Center series on poverty and public policy.
Temas:
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Children of immigrants > Social conditions.
Emigration and immigration > Government policy.
Immigrants > Employment.
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation.
Enfants d'immigrants > Conditions sociales.
Émigration et immigration > Politique gouvernementale.
Immigrants > Intégration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Children of immigrants > Social conditions
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Immigrants > Cultural assimilation
Immigrants > Social conditions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Tables and Figures
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Composition, Competition, and the Geography of Immigrant Poverty
  • Chapter 2. Immigration, Native Poverty, and the Labor Market
  • Chapter 3. Immigrant-Native Substitutability and the Role of Language
  • Chapter 4. Immigration, Segregation, and Poverty
  • Chapter 5. "New Destinations" and Immigrant Poverty
  • Part II. Intergenerational Mobility Within Immigrant Communities
  • Chapter 6. Intergenerational Mobility
  • Chapter 7. Frames of Achievement and Opportunity Horizons
  • Chapter 8. Reassessing Human Capital and Intergenerational Mobility
  • Part III. Public Policy and Poverty Among the Foreign Born
  • Chapter 9. Immigration Enforcement as a Race-Making Institution
  • Chapter 10. Employment Effects of State Legislation
  • Chapter 11. Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
  • Chapter 12. Immigration and Redistributive Social Policy
  • Part IV. Immigrants in Europe
  • Chapter 13. Immigration: The European Experience
  • Index.

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