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Strangers No More : Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe / Nancy Foner, Richard Alba.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 5 line illus. 15 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691161075
  • 9781400865901
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.8 23
LOC classification:
  • JV6342
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. Strangers No More: The Challenges of Integration -- 2. Who Are the Immigrants? The Genesis of the New Diversity -- 3. Economic W ell-being -- 4. Living Situations: How Segregated? How Unequal? -- 5. The Problems and Paradoxes of Race -- 6. Immigrant Religion -- 7. Entering the Precincts of Power -- 8. Educating the Second Generation -- 9. Who Are the "We"? Identity and Mixed Unions -- 10. Conclusion: The Changing Face of the West -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries-France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands-and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This systematic, data-rich comparison reveals their progress and the barriers they face in an array of institutions-from labor markets and neighborhoods to educational and political systems-and considers the controversial questions of religion, race, identity, and intermarriage.Richard Alba and Nancy Foner shed new light on questions at the heart of concerns about immigration. They analyze why immigrant religion is a more significant divide in Western Europe than in the United States, where race is a more severe obstacle. They look at why, despite fears in Europe about the rise of immigrant ghettoes, residential segregation is much less of a problem for immigrant minorities there than in the United States. They explore why everywhere, growing economic inequality and the proliferation of precarious, low-wage jobs pose dilemmas for the second generation. They also evaluate perspectives often proposed to explain the success of immigrant integration in certain countries, including nationally specific models, the political economy, and the histories of Canada and the United States as settler societies.Strangers No More delves into issues of pivotal importance for the present and future of Western societies, where immigrants and their children form ever-larger shares of the population.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1. Strangers No More: The Challenges of Integration -- 2. Who Are the Immigrants? The Genesis of the New Diversity -- 3. Economic W ell-being -- 4. Living Situations: How Segregated? How Unequal? -- 5. The Problems and Paradoxes of Race -- 6. Immigrant Religion -- 7. Entering the Precincts of Power -- 8. Educating the Second Generation -- 9. Who Are the "We"? Identity and Mixed Unions -- 10. Conclusion: The Changing Face of the West -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries-France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands-and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This systematic, data-rich comparison reveals their progress and the barriers they face in an array of institutions-from labor markets and neighborhoods to educational and political systems-and considers the controversial questions of religion, race, identity, and intermarriage.Richard Alba and Nancy Foner shed new light on questions at the heart of concerns about immigration. They analyze why immigrant religion is a more significant divide in Western Europe than in the United States, where race is a more severe obstacle. They look at why, despite fears in Europe about the rise of immigrant ghettoes, residential segregation is much less of a problem for immigrant minorities there than in the United States. They explore why everywhere, growing economic inequality and the proliferation of precarious, low-wage jobs pose dilemmas for the second generation. They also evaluate perspectives often proposed to explain the success of immigrant integration in certain countries, including nationally specific models, the political economy, and the histories of Canada and the United States as settler societies.Strangers No More delves into issues of pivotal importance for the present and future of Western societies, where immigrants and their children form ever-larger shares of the population.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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