Gebundenes Buch

The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience

Beschreibung

Overviews the state of immigration research, drawing on recent social science theory and demographic research to examine the effects and implications of immigration in the US. Examines current theories of international migration and the forces that motivate people to migrate, then focuses on how immigrants are changed after their arrival, and looks at the social, economic, and political effects of the surge of new immigrants of American society.

Autor

CHARLES HIRSCHMAN is professor of sociology at the University of Washington. PHILIP KASINITZ is professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. JOSH DEWIND is program director of the Social Science Research Council and professor of anthropology at Hunter College of the City University of New York. CONTRIBUTORS: Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, Josh DeWind, Richard Alba, Susan B. Carter, Thomas J. Espenshade, Reynolds Farley, Walter C. Farrell Jr., Nancy Foner, Rachel M. Friedberg, Herbert J. Gans, Gary Gerstle, Nina Glick Schiller, Chandra Guinn, John Higham, Gregory A. Huber, Jennifer Hunt, James H. Johnson Jr., David E. López, Douglas S. Massey, John Hull Mollenkopf, Victor Nee, Joel Perlmann, Patricia R. Pessar, David Plotke, Alejandro Portes, Rebeca Raijman, Nestor Rodriguez, Rubén G. Rumbaut, George J. Sánchez, Richard Sutch, Marta Tienda, Roger Waldinger, Min Zhou, and Aristide R. Zolberg.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Russell Sage Foundation
• New
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 263mm x 198mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1179g
• ISBN-13: 9780871542441
• ISBN-10: 0871542447
• Artikelnr.: 21052783