1. The Experience of Old and New Immigrants: A Comparison --;2. Mechanisms and Effects of International Migration --;3. Residential Settlement, Economic Incorporation, and Civic Reception of Immigrants --;4. Immigrants' Sociocultural and Civic-Political Assimilation: Different Groups, Different Contexts, and Different Trajectories --;5. Looking Beyond the Host Country: Immigrants' Transnational Engagements --;6. Immigrants' American-Born Children: Their Modes of Assimilation and Transnational Engagements --;In Lieu of Conclusion: Some Lessons from the Analysis of American Immigrants' Experience, Research Agendas of (Im)Migration Studies Elsewhere in the World, and What We Can Learn from Each Other.
This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants' assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation.
(Re)making multifaceted America
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.