Immigrant America: A Portrait

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.

• | Author: Alejandro Portes|Rub?n G. Rumbaut
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 30, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 544 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0520274024
• | ISBN-13: 9780520274020