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Immigration Reconsidered : History, Sociology, and Politics

Providing an interdisciplinary and global perspective on immigration to the United States, this collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field--including the work of such distinguished historians, sociologists, and political scientists as Charles Tilly, PhilipCurtin, Kirby Miller, Sucheng Chan, Alejandro Portes, Lawrence Fuchs, and Aristide Zolberg--and represents an important step forward in the development of immigration studies. The book helps redirect thinking on the subject by giving a summary of the current state of immigration studies and acoherent new pe
eBook, English, 1990
Oxford University Press, Cary, 1990
Conference papers and proceedings
1 online resource (353 pages)
9780195363685, 019536368X
1002700519
Introduction; MIGRATION PATTERNS IN WORLD HISTORY: THE TROPICAL WORLD, ASIA, AND THE UNITED STATES; 1. Migration in the Tropical World; 2. European and Asian Immigration into the United States in Comparative Perspective, 1820s to 1920s; ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE; 3. Transplanted Networks; 4. Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States: The Case of Irish-American Ethnicity; 5. Work and Family: Blacks and Immigrants from South and East Europe; 6. From South of the Border: Hispanic Minorities in the United States; THE STUDY OF IMMIGRATION 7. The Sociology and Historiography of ImmigrationNEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF IMMIGRATION; 8. Cross-Cultural Comparison and the Writing of Migration History: Some Thoughts on How to Study Italians in the New World; 9. Metaphors of Self in History: Subjectivity, Oral Narrative, and Immigration Studies; THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION; 10. The Reactions of Black Americans to Immigration; 11. Reforming the Back Door: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 in Historical Perspective; Contributors