Immigrant America. Alejandro Portes

Immigrant America - Alejandro Portes

This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of <I>Immigrant America: A Portrait</I> provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume.<BR /><BR /> Updated with the latest available data, <I>Immigrant America</I> 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 immigration and public policy.