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Immigration reconsidered : history, sociology, and politics / edited by Virginia Yans-McLaughlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History--Congresses.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Providing an interdisciplinary and global perspective on immigration to the United States, this collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field--including the work of such distinguished historians, sociologists, and political scientists as Charles Tilly, PhilipCurtin, Kirby Miller, Sucheng Chan, Alejandro Portes, Lawrence Fuchs, and Aristide Zolberg--and represents an important step forward in the development of immigration studies. The book helps redirect thinking on the subject by giving a summary of the current state of immigration studies and acoherent new pe
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; MIGRATION PATTERNS IN WORLD HISTORY: THE TROPICAL WORLD, ASIA, AND THE UNITED STATES; 1. Migration in the Tropical World; 2. European and Asian Immigration into the United States in Comparative Perspective, 1820s to 1920s; ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE; 3. Transplanted Networks; 4. Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States: The Case of Irish-American Ethnicity; 5. Work and Family: Blacks and Immigrants from South and East Europe; 6. From South of the Border: Hispanic Minorities in the United States; THE STUDY OF IMMIGRATION
- 7. The Sociology and Historiography of ImmigrationNEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF IMMIGRATION; 8. Cross-Cultural Comparison and the Writing of Migration History: Some Thoughts on How to Study Italians in the New World; 9. Metaphors of Self in History: Subjectivity, Oral Narrative, and Immigration Studies; THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION; 10. The Reactions of Black Americans to Immigration; 11. Reforming the Back Door: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 in Historical Perspective; Contributors
- Notes:
- "This book of essays grew out of a conference ... sponsored by the Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the New York Council for the Humanities ... which was held at the New York Public Library on October 24-25, 1986"--Acknowledgments.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-505511-X
- 1-280-44051-1
- 0-19-536368-X
- 1-4237-6371-8
- 1-60129-706-8
- OCLC:
- 437173152
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