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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.
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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
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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. Tamar Jacoby - New York Post
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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. Charleston Post and Courier
Synopsis
The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, shaped by successive waves of new arrivals. This comprehensive guide, edited and written by an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars, provides an authoritative account of the most recent surge of immigrants. Based on the latest U.S. Census data and scholarly research, The New Americans is an essential reference for anyone curious about the changing face of America.
About the Author
Mary C. Watersis M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociologyat <>Harvard University.Reed Uedais Professor of History, <>Tufts University, and author of Postwar Immigrant America.Helen B. Marrowis a degree candidate in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, <>Harvard University.Richard D. Albais Distinguished Professor of Sociology, <>State University of New York at Albany.Roger Waldingeris Professor of Sociology, <>University of California at Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda Immigration in Global Historical Perspective
Reed Ueda
Immigration Control Policy: Law and Implementation
Aristide R. Zolberg
Citizenship and Nationality Policy
Peter H. Schuck
Refugees
David W. Haines
Unauthorized Migration
Frank D. Bean
Settlement Patterns in Metropolitan America
John R. Logan
Ethnic and Racial Identity
Herbert J. Gans
Intermarriage and Multiple Identities
Joel Perlmann and Mary C. Waters
Transforming Foreigners into Americans
Roger Waldinger
Transnationalism
Ewa Morawska
Pluralism and Group Relations
Jennifer L. Hochschild
Immigrants and the Economy
Neeraj Kaushal, Cordelia W. Reimers, and David Reimers
Ethnic Politics
Michael Jones-Correa
Ethnic Media
K. Viswanath and Karen Ka-man Lee
Religious and Cultural Institutions
Diana L. Eck
Language
David Lopez and Vanesa Estrada
Education
Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
Gender and Family
Patricia R. Pessar
The Second Generation
Nancy Foner and Philip Kasinitz
Africa: West
Marilyn Halter
Africa: East
Abdi Kusow
Africa: South Africa and Zimbabwe
Helen B. Marrow
Canada
Donna R. Gabaccia
Central America
Norma Stoltz Chinchilla and Nora Hamilton
China: People's Republic of China
Xiao-huang Yin
China: Outside the People's Republic of China
Jennifer Holdaway
Colombia
Luis Eduardo Guarnizo and Marilyn Espitia
Cuba
Lisandro Pérez
Dominican Republic
Peggy Levitt
El Salvador
Cecilia Menjívar
Europe: Western
Donna R. Gabaccia
Europe: Central and Southeastern
Simone Ispa-Landa
Haiti
Lisa Konczal and Alex Stepick
India
Karen Isaksen Leonard
Iran
Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Jamaica
Milton Vickerman
Korea
Pyong Gap Min
Mexico
Albert M. Camarillo
Middle East
Steven J. Gold and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Pacific: Fiji, Tonga, Samoa
Cathy A. Small
Pacific: Japan, Australia, New Zealand
Nana Oishi
Philippines
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Poland
Mary Patrice Erdmans
Russia
Steven J. Gold
South America
Helen B. Marrow
South Asia
Nazli Kibria
Southeast Asia
Carl L. Bankston III and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
United Kingdom
Wendy D. Roth
Vietnam
Rubén G. Rumbaut
West Indies
Calvin B. Holder
Appendix: Immigration and Naturalization Legislation
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index