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Immigrant America A Portrait

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ISBN-10: 0520274024

ISBN-13: 9780520274020

Edition: 4th 2014 (Revised)

Authors: Alejandro Portes, Rub�n G. Rumbaut

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/30/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 544
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 2.068

Alejandro Portes is John Dewey Professor of Sociology and International Relations and chair of the department of sociology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is coauthor of City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami.