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The handbook of international migration : the American experience /
"The Handbook of International Migration gathers the best of this scholarship in one volume to present a comprehensive overview of the state of immigration research in this country, bringing coherence and fresh insight to this fast growing field." "The contributors to The Handbook of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
©1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors ; Foreword / Reynolds Farley ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction. International Migration and Immigration Research: The State of the Field ; Part I. Theories and Concepts of International Migration ; Chapter 1. Immigration Theory for a New Century: Some Problems and Opportunities / Alejandro Portes ; Chapter 2. Why Does Immigration Occur?: A Theoretical Synthesis / Douglas S. Massey ; Chapter 3. The Role of Gender, Households, and Social Networks in the Migration Process: A Review and Appraisal / Patricia R. Pessar.
- Chapter 4. Matters of State: Theorizing Immigration Policy / Aristide R. Zolberg Chapter 5. Transmigrants and Nation-States: Something Old and Something New in the U.S. Immigrant Experience / Nina Glick Schiller ; Chapter 6. Theories of International Migration and Immigration: A Preliminary Reconnaissance of Ideal Types / Charles Hirschman ; Part II. Immigrant Adaptation, Assimilation, and Incorporation ; Chapter 7. Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration / Richard Alba and Victor Nee.
- Chapter 8. Toward a Reconciliation of ""Assimilation"" and ""Pluralism"": The Interplay of Acculturation and Ethnic Retention / Herbert J. Gans Chapter 9. Assimilation and Its Discontents: Ironies and Paradoxes / Ruben G. Rumbaut ; Chapter 10. Segmented Assimilation: Issues, Controversies, and Recent Research on the New Second Generation / Min Zhou ; Chapter 11. Social and Linguistic Aspects of Assimilation Today / David E. Lopez ; Chapter 12. Immigrants, Past and Present: A Reconsideration / Joel Perlmann and Roger Waldinger.
- Chapter 13. Immigrants' Socioeconomic Progress Post-1965: Forging Mobility or Survival? / Rebeca Raijman and Marta Tienda Chapter 14. The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes / Nancy Foner ; Part III. The American Response to Immigration ; Chapter 15. Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans / Gary Gerstle ; Chapter 16. Immigration and Political Incorporation in the Contemporary United States / David Plotke ; Chapter 17. Historical Perspectives on the Economic Consequences of Immigration into the United States / Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch.
- Chapter 18. Immigration and the Receiving Economy / Rachel M. Friedberg and Jennifer Hunt Chapter 19. Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants and the Shrinking Welfare State / Thomas J. Espenshade and Gregory A. Huber ; Chapter 20. Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late-Twentieth-Century America / George J. Sanchez ; Chapter 21. Instead of a Sequel, or, How I Lost My Subject / John Higham.