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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
(Re)making multifaceted America
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.