This work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combiningand comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenthand early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. INDICE: Comparative Perspectives: Similarities and Differences in AmericanImmigration History - Resettlement: Making a New Life - Homeland Ties and Transnational Activities - Nativism: Fear of the Foreigner - Work - Family, Domestic Economy, and the Lives of Women - Race: Becoming White - Race: Becoming Black - Identities and Ethnicities: The Formation of Groups - Traditions and Invented Traditions - Language Conflicts - Melting Pots and Popular Culture
- ISBN: 978-0-312-29349-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 306
- Fecha Publicación: 16/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés