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Title: IMMIGRANT AMERICA
A PORTRAIT
By: Alejandro Portes, Ruben G. Rumbaut
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0520274024
ISBN 13: 9780520274020
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Pub. date: 30 August, 2014
Edition: 4th Revised edition
Pages: 544
Description: Provides readers with a comprehensive and an overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. This title 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.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 101
Publication: US
Imprint: University of California Press
Returns: Returnable
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