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Immigrant life in the U.S : multi-disciplinary perspectives / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Colin Wayne Leach.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 7.
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 240 p. : ill.
- Other Title:
- Immigrant life in the United States
- Immigrant life in the US
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Immigrant Life in the U.S. brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic 'nation of immigrants'. The volume covers a wide range of time periods, ethnic and national groups, and places of immigration. Contemporary Chinese children brought to the U.S. through adoption, Mexican laborers hired to work in the mid-west in the 1930s, Indian computer programmers hired to work in California, and more, are examined in a series of chapters that show the great diversity of issues facing immigrants in the past and in the present.This book emphasizes the complex tapestry that is the everyday experience of life as an immigrant and turns a critical eye on the place of globalization in the everyday life of immigrants. The contrasts it draws between past and present demonstrate the continued salience of national and ethnic identities while also describing how migrants can live almost simultaneously in two countries.This book will be of essential interest to advanced students and researchers of Sociology, History, Ethnic Studies and American Studies.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The local and the nation in a transnational world
- pt. 2. Family, school, and youth culture
- pt. 3. Immigrant labor.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-233) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-40267-8
- 0-415-85992-1
- 1-280-40696-8
- 1-134-40268-6
- 0-203-71780-5
- 9780203717806
- OCLC:
- 437055381
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