Immigrant America : A Portrait

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants and the various forms of their incorporation within American society. With the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political, regional, linguistic and religious aspects of immigration, offers detailed analyses of the adaptation process experienced by the adult second generation of the children of immigrants, and adds an updated and expanded concluding chapter on the changing policy regimes under which immigration has taken place and continues to do so at present--

Author: Alejandro Portes, Rub? G. Rumbaut

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Publication Date: Apr 09, 2024

Number of Pages: 519 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 0520396286

ISBN-13: 9780520396289