The Changing Face of Home The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation / Peggy Levitt and Mary C. Waters, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waters, Mary C.

Levitt, Peggy, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnationalism.

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (421 p.)

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.S.population under eighteen years old--one out of every five children in the United States.Will this generation of immigrant children follow the path of earlier waves of immigrants and gradually assimilate into mainstream American life, or does the global nature.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Peggy Levitt and Mary C. Waters; Part I: Historical, Empirical, and Theoretical Perspectives; Chapter 1. An Early Transnationalism? The Japanese American Second Generation of Hawaii in the Interwar Years - Reed Ueda; Chapter 2. Severed or Sustained Attachments? Language, Identity, and Imagined Communities in the Post-Immigrant Generation - Rubén G. Rumbaut; Chapter 3. Transnationalism and the Children of Immigrants in Contemporary New York - Philip Kasinitz, Mary C. Waters, John H. Mollenkopf, and Merih Anil

Chapter 4. The Ties That Change: Relations to the Ancestral Home over the Life Cycle - Peggy LevittChapter 5. Life Course, Generation, and Social Location as Factors Shaping Second-Generation Transnational Life - Robert C. Smith; Chapter 6. The Generation of Identity: Redefining the Second Generation Within a Transnational Social Field - Georges E. Fouron and Nina Glick-Schiller; Part II: Questioning Some Underlying Assumptions; Chapter 7. On Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Meaning of Immigrant Generations - Susan Eckstein; Chapter 8. Second-Generation Transnationalism - Joel Perlmann

Chapter 9. The Study of Transnationalism Among the Children of Immigrants: Where We Are and Where We Should Be Headed - Michael Jones-CorreaChapter 10. Second-Generation Transnationalism, Then and Now - Nancy Foner; Part III: Using a Transnational Lens to Understand the Children of Immigrants; Chapter 11. There's No Place Like "Home": Emotional Transnationalism and the Struggles of Second-Generation Filipinos - Diane L. Wolf; Chapter 12. Of Blood, Belonging, and Homeland Trips: Transnationalism and Identity Among Second-Generation Chinese and Korean Americans - Nazli Kibria

Chapter 13. Creating Histories for the Present: Second-Generation (Re)definitions of Chinese American Culture - Andrea LouieChapter 14. Second-Generation West Indian Transnationalism - Milton Vickerman; Chapter 15. "Viêt Nam, Nu'ó'c Tôi" (Vietnam, My Country): Vietnamese Americans and Transnationalism - Yen Le Espiritu and Thom Tran; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-61044-353-5

1-61044-352-7

OCLC:

794702260