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BL
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728259
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b547997
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Ewa Morawska.
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A sociology of immigration : : (re)making multifaceted America\ Ewa Morawska.
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| Publication Statement
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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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(ix, 290 pages)
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| ISBN
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0230240879
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: 1282665138
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: 9780230240872
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: 9781282665132
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| Contents
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1. The Experience of Old and New Immigrants: A Comparison --;2. Mechanisms and Effects of International Migration --;3. Residential Settlement, Economic Incorporation, and Civic Reception of Immigrants --;4. Immigrants' Sociocultural and Civic-Political Assimilation: Different Groups, Different Contexts, and Different Trajectories --;5. Looking Beyond the Host Country: Immigrants' Transnational Engagements --;6. Immigrants' American-Born Children: Their Modes of Assimilation and Transnational Engagements --;In Lieu of Conclusion: Some Lessons from the Analysis of American Immigrants' Experience, Research Agendas of (Im)Migration Studies Elsewhere in the World, and What We Can Learn from Each Other.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Emigration and immigration.
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Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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| LC Classification
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JV6475.E936 2009
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Ewa T Morawska
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| Parallel Title
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(Re)making multifaceted America
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