Remaking the American mainstream : assimilation and contemporary immigration /
"In this era of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation - that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time - seems outdated. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilat...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Alba, Richard D. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Remaking the American mainstream : |b assimilation and contemporary immigration / |c Richard Alba, Victor Nee. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge, Mass. : |b Harvard University Press, |c 2003. | ||
| 300 | |a xiv, 359 p. : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-349) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Rethinking assimilation -- Assimilation theory, old and new -- Assimilation in practice : the Europeans and East Asians -- Was assimilation contingent on specific historical conditions? -- The background to contemporary immigration -- Evidence of contemporary assimilation -- Remaking the mainstream. | |
| 520 | 1 | |a "In this era of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation - that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time - seems outdated. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past."--BOOK JACKET. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Emigration and immigration |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Americanization. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Immigrants |z United States |x Social conditions. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Américanisation. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Immigrants |z États-Unis |x Conditions sociales. | |
| 651 | 6 | |a États-Unis |x Émigration et immigration |x Aspect social. | |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Immigranten. |2 gtt |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Assimilatie (sociologie) |2 gtt |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Sociale situatie. |2 gtt |
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| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Soziale Situation. |2 swd |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Einwanderung. |2 swd |
| 650 | 0 | 7 | |a Akkulturation. |2 swd |
| 651 | 7 | |a USA. |2 swd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Americanization. |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Emigration and immigration |x Social aspects. |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Immigrants |x Social conditions. |2 fast | |
| 651 | 7 | |a United States. |2 fast | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Nee, Victor, |d 1945- | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Alba, Richard D. |t Remaking the American mainstream. |d Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 |w (OCoLC)631834968 |
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