Alejandro Portes is Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. He is the author of several UC Press books, including Legacies, Ethnicities, Immigrant America and City on the Edge.Lori D. Smithis completing her doctorate in Sociology at Princeton.
22 Ebooks de Alejandro Portes
Alejandro Portes & Robert L. Bach: Latin Journey
Latin Journey details an eight-year study of Mexican and Cuban immigrants. Das E-Book Latin Journey wird angeboten von University of California Press und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: …
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Lori D. Smith & Alejandro Portes: Institutions Count
What leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a …
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€30.99
Alejandro Portes & Ruben G. Rumbaut: Immigrant America
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. …
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€37.06
Alejandro Portes: Spanish Legacies
Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting cou …
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€30.99
Ariel C. Armony & Alejandro Portes: The Global Edge
Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable proc …
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Alejandro Portes: Economic Sociology
The sociological study of economic activity has witnessed a significant resurgence. Recent texts have chronicled economic sociology’s nineteenth-century origins while pointing to the importance of co …
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€46.99
Nelson Amaro & Christopher Chase-Dunn: Globalization on the Ground
This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national developm …
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€56.62
Alejandro Portes & Patricia Fernández-Kelly: The State and the Grassroots
Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Compa …
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€33.99
Alejandro Portes & Ruben G. Rumbaut: Immigrant America
This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other …
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€36.44
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly & Alejandro Portes: Health Care and Immigration
This pioneering volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA – two broken systems in …
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€56.09
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly & Alejandro Portes: Health Care and Immigration
This pioneering volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA – two broken systems in …
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€56.49
Alejandro Portes & John Walton: Labor, Class, and the International System
Labor, Class, and the International System explores the interface between the labor process, class structure, and the global requirements of accumulation as a necessary complement to the analysis of …
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€56.49
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly & Alejandro Portes: End of Compassion
This book brings together the most recent and the most comprehensive collection of articles on a population at risk: the children of immigrants in the United States, especially those children whose p …
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€51.40
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly & Alejandro Portes: End of Compassion
This book brings together the most recent and the most comprehensive collection of articles on a population at risk: the children of immigrants in the United States, especially those children whose p …
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€50.81
Alejandro Portes & Ariel C. Armony: Emerging Global Cities
Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities, ” whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly …
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€34.99
Rubén G. Rumbaut & Alejandro Portes: Immigrant America
This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theorie …
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€30.99
Alejandro Portes & Margarita Rodriguez: Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents
This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution.The volume results f …
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€64.19
Alejandro Portes & Margarita Rodriguez: Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents
This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution.The volume results f …
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€63.55
Alejandro Portes: Economic Sociology of Immigration
"Portes suggests that immigration constitutes an especially appropriate Mertonian ‘strategic research site’ for economic sociology in that it provides very good opportunities for investigating t …
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€38.53
Alejandro Portes: New Second Generation
The children of the past decade’s influx of immigrants comprise a second generation far different than any this country has known before. Largely non-white and from the world’s developing nations, th …
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€40.94
Anke Birkenmaier: Caribbean Migrations
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to reflect on the long-standing, entangled relations between …
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€66.85
Anke Birkenmaier: Caribbean Migrations
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to reflect on the long-standing, entangled relations between …
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€66.51
