Immigration Research for a New Century Multidisciplinary Perspectives / Nancy Foner, Ruben G. Rumbaut, Steven J. Gold, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gold, Steven J. (Steven James)

Rumbaut, Rubén G.

Foner, Nancy, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Research.

Emigration and immigration.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rapid rise in immigration over the past few decades has transformed the American social landscape, while the need to understand its impact on society has led to a burgeoning research literature.

Contents:

Contents ; Contributors ; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Immigration and Immigration Research in the United States / Nancy Foner, Ruben G. Rumbaut, and Steven J. Gold ; Part I. Studying Immigration: Disciplinary Perspectives and Future Research Needs ; Chapter 1. Immigration Research in the United States: Social Origins and Future Orientations / Ruben G. Rumbaut ; Chapter 2. The View from the Disciplines and the Social Science Research Council ; The Sociological Roots and Multidisciplinary Future of Immigration Research / Mary C. Waters

Anthropology and the Study of Immigration / Nancy Foner Race and Immigration History / George J. Sanchez ; The Politics of Immigration Policy: An Externalist Perspective / Aristide R. Zolberg ; Immigration Studies and the Social Science Research Council / Josh DeWind ; Chapter 3. Filling in Some Holes: Six Areas of Needed Immigration Research / Herbert J. Gans ; Part II. Studies of Immigration: Research from a New Generation of Scholars ; Political Economy, Membership, and the State

Chapter 4. Which Face? Whose Nation? Immigration, Public Health, and the Construction of Disease at America's Ports and Borders, 1891 to 1928 / Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern Chapter 5. ""The Exported to Care"": A Transnational History of Filipino Nurse Migration to the United States / Catherine Ceniza Choy ; Chapter 6. Transnational Political Strategies: The Case of Mexican Indigenous Migrants / Gaspar Rivera-Salgado ; Chapter 7. Naturalization Under Changing Conditions of Membership: Dominican Immigrants in New York City / Greta Gilbertson and Audrey Singer

Chapter 8. Participation in Liberal Democracy: The Political Assimilation of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in the United States / Jane Junn Chapter 9. The Rise of Nonstate Actors in Migration Regulation in the Unites States and Europe: Changing the Gatekeepers or Bringing Back the State? / Gallya Lahav ; Migration, Economic Incorporation, and the Market ; Chapter 10. One Border, Two Crossings: Mexican Migration to the United States as a Two-Way Process / Steven S. Zahniser ; Chapter 11. Immigrant Labor Recruitment: U.S. Agribusiness and Undocumented Migration from Mexico / Fred Krissman

Chapter 12. Skilled Immigrants and Cerebreros: Foreign-Born Engineers and Scientists in the High Technology Industy of Silicon Valley / Rafael Alarcon Chapter 13. Immigrant and African American Competition: Jewish, Korean, and African American Entrepreneurs / Jennifer Lee; Chapter 14. Outsourcing the Hearth: The Impact of Immigration on Labor Allocation in American Families / Kathy A. Kaufman ; Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Community ; Chapter 15. En el Norte la Mujer Manda: Gender, Generation, and Geography in a Mexican Transnational Community / Jennifer S. Hirsch

Chapter 16. Dialing 911 in Nuer: Gender Transformations and Domestic Violence in a Midwestern Sudanese Refugee Community / Jon D. Holtzman

Notes:

Based on a conference held at Columbia University in June 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-61044-829-4

OCLC:

908637465