Toward Assimilation And Citizenship

Author : C. Joppke
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554792
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Assimilation and Citizenship written by C. Joppke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies, which one could characterize as a turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives, toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citizenship. Looking both at state policies and migrant practices, the contributions to this volume argue that (1) citizenship has remained the dominant membership principle in liberal nation-states, (2) multiculturalism policies are everywhere in retreat, and (3) contemporary migrants are simultaneously assimilating and transnationalizing.

Author : Sharmila Rudrappa
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813533711
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Routes to Becoming American written by Sharmila Rudrappa and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author examines the paths South Asian immigrants in Chicago take toward assimilation in the late 20th century United States. She examines two ethnic institutions to show how immigrant activism ironically abets these immigrants' assimilation.

Author : Irene Bloemraad
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520248996
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Citizen written by Irene Bloemraad and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Becoming a Citizen is a terrific book. Important, innovative, well argued, theoretically significant, and empirically grounded. It will be the definitive work in the field for years to come."—Frank D. Bean, Co-Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy "This book is in three ways innovative. First, it avoids the domestic navel-gazing of U.S .immigration studies, through an obvious yet ingenious comparison with Canada. Second, it shows that official multiculturalism and common citizenship may very well go together, revealing Canada, and not the United States, as leader in successful immigrant integration. Thirdly, the book provides a compelling picture of how the state matters in making immigrants citizens. An outstanding contribution to the migration and citizenship literature!"—Christian Joppke, American University of Paris

Author : Tova Cooper
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813570166
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of Citizenship written by Tova Cooper and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was faced with a new and radically mixed population, one that included freed African Americans, former reservation Indians, and a burgeoning immigrant population. In The Autobiography of Citizenship, Tova Cooper looks at how educators tried to impose unity on this divergent population, and how the new citizens in turn often resisted these efforts, reshaping mainstream U.S. culture and embracing their own view of what it means to be an American. The Autobiography of Citizenship traces how citizenship education programs began popping up all over the country, influenced by the progressive approach to hands-on learning popularized by John Dewey and his followers. Cooper offers an insightful account of these programs, enlivened with compelling readings of archival materials such as photos of students in the process of learning; autobiographical writing by both teachers and new citizens; and memoirs, photos, poems, and novels by authors such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Jane Addams, Charles Reznikoff, and Emma Goldman. Indeed, Cooper provides the first comparative, inside look at these citizenship programs, revealing that they varied wildly: at one end, assimilationist boarding schools required American Indian children to transform their dress, language, and beliefs, while at the other end the libertarian Modern School encouraged immigrant children to frolic naked in the countryside and learn about the world by walking, hiking, and following their whims. Here then is an engaging portrait of what it was like to be, and become, a U.S. citizen one hundred years ago, showing that what it means to be “American” is never static.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309052750
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statistics on U.S. Immigration written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-07-27 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing importance of immigration in the United States today prompted this examination of the adequacy of U.S. immigration data. This volume summarizes data needs in four areas: immigration trends, assimilation and impacts, labor force issues, and family and social networks. It includes recommendations on additional sources for the data needed for program and research purposes, and new questions and refinements of questions within existing data sources to improve the understanding of immigration and immigrant trends.

Author : Kelly Barth
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assimilation written by Kelly Barth and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: Greenhaven Press's At Issue series provides a wide range of opinions on individual social issues. Each volume focuses on a specific issue and offers a variety of perspectives-eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper and magazine accounts, and many more-to illuminate the issue. Extensive bibliographies and annotated lists of relevant organizations point to sources for further research. Enhancing critical thinking skills, each At Issue volume is an excellent research tool to help readers understand current social issues and prepare reports.

Author : Catherine S. Ramírez
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520971965
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assimilation written by Catherine S. Ramírez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United States. And still today, the dream or demand of a cultural "melting pot" circulates through academia, policy institutions, and mainstream media outlets. Noting society’s many exclusions and erasures, scholars in the second half of the twentieth century persuasively argued that only some social groups assimilate. Others, they pointed out, are subject to racialization. In this bold, discipline-traversing cultural history, Catherine Ramírez develops an entirely different account of assimilation. Weaving together the legacies of US settler colonialism, slavery, and border control, Ramírez challenges the assumption that racialization and assimilation are separate and incompatible processes. In fascinating chapters with subjects that range from nineteenth century boarding schools to the contemporary artwork of undocumented immigrants, this book decouples immigration and assimilation and probes the gap between assimilation and citizenship. It shows that assimilation is not just a process of absorption and becoming more alike. Rather, assimilation is a process of racialization and subordination and of power and inequality.

Author : E. Morawska
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230240879
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sociology of Immigration written by E. Morawska and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration. It examines four major issues informing current sociological studies of immigration: mechanisms and effects of international migration, processes of immigrants' assimilation and transnational engagements, and the adaptation patterns of the second generation.

Author : José Olivarez
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608469557
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizen Illegal written by José Olivarez and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Olivarez steps into the ‘inbetween’ standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity” (Newsweek). Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR. In this “devastating debut” (Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good kids, bad kids, families clinging to hope, life after the steel mills, gentrifying barrios, and everything in between. Drawing on the rich traditions of Latinx and Chicago writers like Sandra Cisneros and Gwendolyn Brooks, Olivarez creates a home out of life in the in-between. Combining wry humor with potent emotional force, Olivarez takes on complex issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and immigration using an everyday language that invites the reader in, with a unique voice that makes him a poet to watch. “The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez celebrates his Mexican-American identity and examines how those two sides conflict in a striking collection of poems.” —USA Today

Author : Claudia Sadowski-Smith
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479806714
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Immigrant Whiteness written by Claudia Sadowski-Smith and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: presumed white: race, gender, and modes of migration in the post-Soviet diaspora -- The post-Soviet diaspora on transnational reality TV -- Highly skilled and marriage migrants in Arizona -- Segmented assimilation and return migration -- The desire for adoptive invisibility -- Fictions of irregular post-Soviet migration -- The post-Soviet diaspora in comparative perspective -- Conclusion: immigrant whiteness today