Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Nee, Victor, 1945-

Description

1. xiv, 359 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "In this era of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation - that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time - seems outdated. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Americanization
2. Immigrants > United States > Social conditions
3. Américanisation
4. Immigrants > États-Unis > Conditions sociales
5. Immigranten
6. Assimilatie (sociologie)
7. Sociale situatie
8. Amerikanisierung
9. Soziale Situation
10. Einwanderung
11. Akkulturation
12. Americanization
13. Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
14. Immigrants > Social conditions
15. United States > Social aspects
16. États-Unis > Aspect social
17. USA
18. United States

Contents

1. Rethinking assimilation -- Assimilation theory, old and new -- Assimilation in practice : the Europeans and East Asians -- Was assimilation contingent on specific historical conditions? -- The background to contemporary immigration -- Evidence of contemporary assimilation -- Remaking the mainstream.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-349) and index.

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1. committed to retain