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Alejandro Portes & Ruben G. Rumbaut
Immigrant America [EPUB ebook]
A Portrait

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This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the role of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation. This revised edition includes new chapters on theories of migration and on the history of U.S.-bound migration from the late nineteenth century to the present, offering an updated and expanded concluding chapter on immigration and public policy.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 544 ● ISBN 9780520959156 ● Publisher University of California Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6541906 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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