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Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation
Alejandro Portes
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Description for Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation
Paperback. One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This study provides a close look at this rising second generation, including their patterns of acculturation, family and school life, language, identity, experiences of discrimination, self-esteem, ambition, and achievement. Num Pages: 430 pages, 23 b/w photographs, 31 line figures, 50 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFFN; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 618.
One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation's lives, exploring their immense potential to transform American society for better or worse. Whether this new generation reinvigorates the nation or deepens its social problems depends on the social and economic trajectories of this still young population. In "Legacies", Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut - two of the leading figures in the field - provide a close look at this rising second generation, including their patterns of acculturation, ... Read more
One out of five Americans, more than 55 million people, are first-or second-generation immigrants. This landmark study, the most comprehensive to date, probes all aspects of the new immigrant second generation's lives, exploring their immense potential to transform American society for better or worse. Whether this new generation reinvigorates the nation or deepens its social problems depends on the social and economic trajectories of this still young population. In "Legacies", Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut - two of the leading figures in the field - provide a close look at this rising second generation, including their patterns of acculturation, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
Number of Pages
430
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520228481
SKU
V9780520228481
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About Alejandro Portes
Alejandro Portes is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and Director of the Center for Migration and Development, Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs. He is the coauthor of City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (California, 1993) and Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States (California, 1985). Portes is the 2010 recipient of ... Read more
Reviews for Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation
"If Marx, Weber, and Durkheim were alive at the dawn of the 21st century, Legacies is the first book they would have to read to understand just what is at stake in the new immigration. This elegant book - theoretically precise, empirically robust, and analytically savvy - will become the standard by which all subsequent scholarship on the sociology of ... Read more