Immigrant America : a portrait.
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| 格式: | Ouvrage |
| 语言: | Anglais |
| 版: | 3rd ed., rev., expanded, and updated. |
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书本目录:
- 1. Nine stories
- 2. Who they are and why they come
- The origins of immigration
- Immigrants and their types
- Overview
- 3. Moving : patterns of immigrant settlement and spatial mobility
- The pioneers
- Following in the footsteps
- Contemporary settlement patterns : a map of immigrant America
- Locational decisions of immigrant groups
- Preferred places
- Persistent ethnicity
- Conclusion : the pros and cons of spatial concentration
- 4. Making it in America : occupational and economic adaptation
- Immigrants in the American economy
- Explaining the differences : modes of incorporation
- Conclusion
- 5. From immigrants to ethnics : identity, citizenship, and political participation
- In the society and not of it
- Immigrant politics at the turn of the century
- Immigrant politics today
- Making it count : citizenship acquisition
- The future of immigrant politics
- Variations within a theme
- Conclusion
- 6. A foreign world : immigration, mental health, and acculturation
- Travel and travail
- Marginality and freedom
- Early psychopathology : the eugenics approach to mental illness
- From nationality to class and context : the changed etiology of mental illness
- Immigrants and refugees : contemporary trends
- Contexts of incorporation : mental health and help seeking
- Acculturation and its discontents
- Immigration and incarceration
- Acculturation and perceptions of discrimination
- Conclusion : the major determinants of immigrant psychology
- 7. Learning the ropes : language and education
- Patterns of English language acquisition in the United States
- Language diversity and resilience in the United States today
- Assimilation and linguistic pluralism in the United States
- Conclusion
- 8. Growing up American : the new second generation
- The new second generation at a glance
- Parental human capital and modes of incorporation
- The children of immigrants longitudinal study
- Where they grow up : challenges to second-generation adaptation
- Confronting the challenge
- Segmented assimilation in early adulthood
- Conclusion
- 9. Religion : the enduring presence
- Yesterday and today
- Religion and modes of incorporation
- Religious diversity and change
- Religion and transnationalism
- Religion and the second generation
- Religion : linear and reactive
- The Mexican experience
- Islam
- Conclusion
- 10. Conclusion : immigration and public policy
- A game of mirrors : the public perception of immigration
- The reality underneath : the political economy of immigration
- The clash of ideology and reality
- Better policies for a better future
- Conclusion.