Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new about this period.
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Introduction: Marilyn Halter and Christopher Capozzola PART I: THE CITY 1. ‘The Metropolitan Diaspora: New Immigrants in Greater Boston; Marilynn S. Johnson 2. Racializing Latinos in the Nuevo South: Immigrants, Legal Status, and the State in Atlanta; Mary Odem and Irene Browne 3. The Politics of Place in Immigrant and Receiving Communities; Domenic Vitiello PART II: SELF 4. ‘Intergenerational Relations in Immigrant Families: Comparisons across Time and Space; Nancy Foner 5. Bosnians in Search of Community: Keeping Faith and Ethnicity Alive in Boston; Kristen Lucken 6. The Ties that Bind: Kinship, Religion, and Community among Nigerian Immigrants in the U.S.; Veronica Mc Comb PART III: SOCIETY 7. ‘Engaging the Public Sphere: The Civic and Political Incorporation of Post-1965 Indian Immigrants; Caroline Brettell 8. Chinese American Participation in Transnational Activities and U.S.-China Relations; Xiao-huang Yin 9. U.S. Refugee Policy in the Post-Cold War Era: Balancing Humanitarian Obligations and Security Concerns; Maria Cristina García 10. Immigration Politics, Service Labor, and the Problem of the Undocumented Worker in Southern California; Thomas Jessen Adams
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Christopher Capozzola, MIT, USA Mary Odem, Emory University, USA Irene Brown, Emory University, USA Domenic Vitiello, University of Pennsylvania, USA Nancy Foner, Hunter College, USA Kristen Lucken, Brandeis University, USA Veronica Mc Comb, Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA Caroline Brettell, Southern Methodist University, USA Xiao-huang Yin, Occidental College, USA Maria Cristina García, Cornell University, USA Thomas Jessen Adams, Tulane University, USA
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