Immigrant America: a portrait
Abstract
A portrayal of immigration and immigrant lives in the United States, this work, first published in 1990, is now published in a second edition which has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities, and the vertiginous pace of historical change in the post-Cold-War era. The authors have written two new chapters, infused the entire text with new data, and added a vivid array of new illustrations. The United States of the late twentieth century is a new nation of immigrants. Not since the peak years of immigration before World War I have so many newcomers made their way to America. During the 1980s about six million immigrants and refugees were legally admitted, and a sizable but uncertain number of others entered without legal status. This book offers a broad portrait of the multicultural people who comprise the latest wave of immigrants to the United States
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Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut (1997). Immigrant America: a portrait. Choice Reviews Online. https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-5960
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title = {Immigrant America: a portrait},
author = {Portes, Alejandro and Rumbaut, Rubén G.},
year = {1997},
journal = {Choice Reviews Online},
doi = {10.5860/choice.34-5960}
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