Name: The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965
Author: Marrow, Helen B.
ISBN: 9780674023574

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The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965

edited by Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda
associate editor Helen B. Marrow

Harvard University Press, 2007
eISBN: 978-0-674-04493-7 | Cloth: 978-0-674-02357-4
Library of Congress Classification JV6455.N49 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 325.73

ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Listen to a short interview with Mary WatersHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane

Salsa has replaced ketchup as the most popular condiment. A mosque has been erected around the corner. The local hospital is staffed by Indian doctors and Philippine nurses, and the local grocery store is owned by a Korean family. A single elementary school may include students who speak dozens of different languages at home. This is a snapshot of America at the turn of the twenty-first century.

The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, shaped by successive waves of new arrivals. The most recent transformation began when immigration laws and policies changed significantly in 1965, admitting migrants from around the globe in new numbers and with widely varying backgrounds and aspirations.

This comprehensive guide, edited and written by an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars, provides an authoritative account of the most recent surge of immigrants. Twenty thematic essays address such topics as immigration law and policy, refugees, unauthorized migrants, racial and ethnic identity, assimilation, nationalization, economy, politics, religion, education, and family relations. These are followed by comprehensive articles on immigration from the thirty most significant nations or regions of origin. Based on the latest U.S. Census data and the most recent scholarly research, The New Americans is an essential reference for students, scholars, and anyone curious about the changing face of America.

REVIEWS

An exhaustive new work by more than two dozen American scholars...It's a careful, learned work aimed at educating us all as to who Americans really are these days...For those reporting on, working with or leading this increasingly diverse nation, The New Americans will serve as a thorough primer to the nuances, challenges and opportunities at hand.
-- Robert Behre Charleston Post and Courier

The book is a useful primer; at once a wealth of information and a telling snapshot of current academic opinion on that all-important topic, assimilation.
-- Tamar Jacoby New York Post

There is not a weak or disappointing essay in the book...Waters and Ueda have succeeded in their goal of updating The Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups. My copy of The New Americans now sits next to that venerable old guide, as it should for any scholar of the American immigrant experience.
-- Peter Kivisto Ethnic and Racial Studies

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Immigration in Global Historical Perspective                      14
Reed Ueda
Immigration Control Policy: Law and Implementation                29
Aristide R. Zolberg
Citizenship and Nationality Policy.. ....                         43
Peter H. Schuck
Refugees                                                          56
David W Haines
Unauthorized Migration                                            70
Frank D.1 Bean and BA Lindsay Lowell
Settlement Patterns in Metropolitan America                       83
John R. Logan
Ethnic and Racial Identity                                   .    98
Herbertj. Gans
Intermarriage and Multiple Identities                            110
Joel Perbnan.n and Mary C Waters
Assimilation                                                     124
RichardAlba and Victor Nee
Trlansforming F.isoreigners into.Amnericans                        137
Roger Wa/inger
Transnatonalism                                                    i49
Ewa Morawska
Pluralism and Group Relations                                      164
Jennifir L. Hocbsebjild                     .
Immigrants and the Economy                                         176
Neeraj Kaus/al, Cordelia W.Reimers, and David M, Reiters
Ethnic Politics                                                    189
Michael Jones-Corar
Ethnic Media                                                       202
K Vii:wa nah and Karen Ka-man Lee
Religion                                                           214
Diana L. Eck
Language                                                           228
David Ldpez and Vanesa Estrada.
Education                                                          243
Carola Sudrez-Orozco andAMarcelo Sudrez-Orozvo
Gender and Family                                                  258
Patricia R. Pessar
The Second Generation                                              270
NVancy Loner andPhip Kasinitz
Africa: West                                                       283
Marilyn Ha/ter
Africa: East                                                       295
Abdi Ansow
Africa: South Africa and Zimbabwe.                                 307
Helen B. Marrow
Canada                                                             319
Donna R. Gabarcia
Central America                                                   328
Morn7a Stoltz Chinchilla and Aora Hamilton
China: People's Republic of China                                 340
Xiao-huang Yin
China: Outside the People's Republic of China                     355
jennifer Holdaway
Colombia                                                          371
Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Marilyn Espitia
Cuba                                                              386
Lisandro P&rez
Dominican Republic                                                399
Peggy Levitt
El Salvador                                                       412
Cecilia Menjivar
Europe: Western                                                   421
Donna kt Gabaccia
Europe: Central and Southeastern                                  433
Simone Ispa-Landa
lHliti                                                            445
Lisa Konczal and Alex Stopick
India                                                             458
Karen Isaksen Leonard
Iran                                                              469
Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Jamaica                                                           479
Milton Vickerman
Korea                                                             491
Pyong Gap .An
Mexico504
Albert M. Camarillo
Middle East and North Africa                                         518
Steven . Gold andAMehdi Bozorgnehr
Pacific: Fiji., Tonga, Samoa                                         534
CathyA. Small
Pacific: Japan, Australia, New Zealand                               543
Nana Oishi
Philippines5
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Catherine Ceniz/a Choy
Poland                                                               570
Mary Patrice Erdmans
Russia                                                               579
Stevenj Gold
South America                                                        593)
Helen B. Marrow
South Asia                                                           612
Nazli (ibria
Southeast Asia.                                                      624
Carl L. Bankston /I and Danele Antoinette Hidalgo
United Kingdom.                                                      641
Wendy D. Roth
Vietnam                                                              652
Ruban C. Rumbant
West Indies                                                          674
Calvin B. Holder

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