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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED331914 AUTHOR: Portes, Alejandro; Rumbaut, Ruben G.
TITLE: Immigrant America. A Portrait.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 323 p.
AVAILABILITY: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
94720.
ABSTRACT: This book aims to synthesize the major aspects of
recent immigration to the United States, focusing on the
diversity of origins of today's immigrants and their
contexts of exit and on the diversity of their adaptation
experiences and contexts of incorporation. The book
consists of seven chapters. Chapter 1, "Who They Are and
Why They Come," proposes a topology of contemporary
immigrants that serves to organize the subsequent analysis
of their economic, political, social, cultural, and
psychological adaptation. Chapter 2, "Moving," examines
immigrants' points of departure and patterns of settlement
and the formation and function of new ethnic communities in
the urban United States. Chapter 3, "Making It in America,"
looks at the incorporation of immigrants in the U.S.
economy. Chapter 4, "From Immigrants to Ethnics," analyzes
immigrant politics, including underlying questions of
identity, loyalty, and the determinants of current patterns
of naturalization. Chapter 5, "A Foreign World," focuses on
the psychology of immigrant adaptation. Chapter 6,
"Learning the Ropes," discusses English language
acquisition, the loss or maintenance of bilingualism, and
new data on educational attainment. The concluding chapter
studies the origins and impact of illegal immigration. The
book includes eight figures, 34 tables, and a bibliography
listing 366 references. (AF)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Cultural-Pluralism; English-Second
Language; Foreign-Nationals; Public-Policy; Social
Integration; Undocumented-Immigrants;
United-States-History;
Urban-Areas
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Acculturation-; *Adjustment-to
Environment; *Biculturalism-; *Bilingualism-; *Immigrants-
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