Immigrant America

A Portrait

Prof Alejandro Portes author Prof Rubén G Rumbaut author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:3rd Oct '14

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Immigrant America cover

This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the role of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation. This revised edition includes new chapters on theories of migration and on the history of U.S. - bound migration from the late nineteenth century to the present, offering an updated and expanded concluding chapter on immigration and public policy.

ISBN: 9780520274020

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 36mm

Weight: 862g

544 pages

4th Revised edition