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Immigrant Families
Cecilia Menjívar
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Description for Immigrant Families
Paperback. Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States. In doing so, it reaffirms that the vast majority of people do not migrate as isolated individuals, but are members of families. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 150. .
Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States. In doing so, it reaffirms that the vast majority of people do not migrate as isolated individuals, but are members of families.
There is no quintessential immigrant experience, as immigrants and their families arrive with different levels of economic, social, and cultural resources, and must navigate various social structures that shape how they fare. Immigrant Families highlights the hierarchies and inequities between and within immigrant families created by key axes of inequality such as legal status, social class, gender, and ... Read more
Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the United States. In doing so, it reaffirms that the vast majority of people do not migrate as isolated individuals, but are members of families.
There is no quintessential immigrant experience, as immigrants and their families arrive with different levels of economic, social, and cultural resources, and must navigate various social structures that shape how they fare. Immigrant Families highlights the hierarchies and inequities between and within immigrant families created by key axes of inequality such as legal status, social class, gender, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745670164
SKU
V9780745670164
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About Cecilia Menjívar
Cecilia Menjívar is Foundation Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas. Leisy J. Abrego is Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Leah C. Schmalzbauer is Associate Professor of American Studies and Sociology at Amherst College.
Reviews for Immigrant Families
"Comprehensive, well-researched, and clearly-written, Immigrant Families fills a unique niche in both the fields of immigration and family literature. The authors bring wisdom, empathy, and clarity to the complex political, economic, legal, sociological, and gendered forces shaping immigrant families' lives." Carola Suárez-Orozco, UCLA "In Immigrant Families, Menjivar, Abrego , and Schmalzbauer give us an excellent analysis of the factors ... Read more