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

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 theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants’ incorporation within American society.


With the latest available data,
Immigrant America further explores the economic, political, regional, linguistic, and religious aspects of immigration. It offers detailed analyses of the adaptation process experienced by adult children of immigrants and adds an updated and expanded concluding chapter on changing immigration policy regimes both past and present.

 

Table of Content

Contents


List of Illustrations 

List of Tables 

Preface to the Fifth Edition 

Preface to the Fourth Edition 

Preface to the Third Edition 

Preface to the Second Edition 

Preface to the First Edition 

Acknowledgments for the Fifth Edition 

Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition 

Acknowledgments for the Third Edition 

Acknowledgments for the Second Edition 

Acknowledgments for the First Edition 


1. The Four Phases of U.S.-Bound Immigration 

2. Theoretical Overview 

3. Moving: Patterns of Immigrant Settlement and Spatial Mobility 

4. Making It in America: Education, Occupation, and Entrepreneurship 

5. From Immigrants to Ethnics: Identity, Citizenship, and Political Participation 

6. Language: Diversity and Resilience 

7. The New Second Generation 

8. Religion: The Enduring Presence 

9. Conclusion 


Notes 

References 

Index 

About the author

Alejandro Portes is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Princeton University and Research Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. Rubén G. Rumbaut is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and founding chair of the American Sociological Association’s International Migration Section. They are the coauthors of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and coeditors of Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America.