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From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era (Nation of Nations)
Barkan
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Description for From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era (Nation of Nations)
Paperback. Offers multiethnic and multidisciplinary perspectives on the challenges confronting immigrants adapting to a new society. This work also includes essays that analyze contemporary issues facing Muslim newcomers in the wake of September 11, 2001. Editor(s): Barkan, Elliott Robert; Kraut, Alan M.; Diner, Hasia R. Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
The United States is once again in the midst of a peak period of immigration. By 2005, more than 35 million legal and illegal migrants were present in the United States. At different rates and with differing degrees of difficulty, a great many will be incorporated into American society and culture.
Leading immigration experts in history, sociology, anthropology, economics, and political science here offer multiethnic and multidisciplinary perspectives on the challenges confronting immigrants adapting to a new society. How will these recent arrivals become Americans? Does the journey to the U.S. demand abandoning the past? How is the United ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
NYU Press
Condition
New
Series
Nation of Nations
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814799611
SKU
V9780814799611
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About Barkan
Elliott Barkan (Editor) Elliott Barkan is Emeritus Professor of History and Ethnic Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. He is the author or editor of numerous books including, most recently, From All Points: America’s Immigrant West, 1870s-1952. Hasia R. Diner (Editor) Hasia R. Diner is Professor Emerita at the Departments of History ... Read more
Reviews for From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era (Nation of Nations)
"The complex, ambiguous connections among the immigration past and present are given masterful treatment in From Arrival to Incorporation, which presents a series of case studies that are essential reading for anyone who seeks guidance in the interpretation of present-day immigration and its consequences for American society. This volume gives multidimensional depth to the contemporary landscape of diversity."
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