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Achieving anew : how new immigrants do in American schools, jobs, and neighborhoods / Michael J. White and Jennifer E. Glick.
LIBRA JV6465 .W458 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- White, Michael J., 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- United States--Emigration and immigration.
- United States.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Assimilation (Sociology)--United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2009]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A tidal wave of immigration? The scale of the contemporary immigration flow
- Revisiting assimilation theory
- Immigration and immigrant policy
- School : educational attainment of immigrants and the second generation
- Work : labor market achivement
- Neighborhood : residential assimilation of immigrants and ethnic groups
- Conclusion : immigrant assimilation and social policy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780871549204
- 0871549204
- OCLC:
- 277466123
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