Immigration Reconsidered History,Sociology, and Politics

Book : Immigration Reconsidered History,Sociology, and Politics

Author : * Virginia Yans-McLaughlin

Language : English

Library : Population

Publish Place : New York

ISBN : 0-19-505510-1

Publish Date : 00 1990

Publisher : Oxford University press

Book Type : Book

Book Number : 2492

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CONTENTS
Introduction
VIRGINIA YANS-MCLAUGHLIN
MIGRATION PATTERNS IN WORLD HISTORY:
THE TROPICAL WORLD, ASIA,
AND THE UNITED STATES
1. Migration in the Tropical World
PHILIP D. CURTIN
2. European and Asian Immigration into the United States in Comparative Perspective, 1820s to 1920s
SUCHENG CHAN
ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
3. Transplanted Networks
CHARLES TILLY
4. Class, Culture, and Immigrant Group Identity in the United States: The Case of Irish-American Ethnicity
KERBY A. MILLER
5. Work and Family: Blacks and Immigrants from South and East Europe
SUZANNE W. MODEL
6. From South of the Border: Hispanic Minorities in the United States
ALEJANDRO PORTESTHE STUDY OF IMMIGRATION 7. The Sociology and Historiography of Immigration
EWA MORAWSKA
NEW APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF IMMIGRATION
8. Cross-Cultural Comparison and the Writing of Migration History: Some Thoughts on How to Study Italians in the New World
SAMUEL L. BAILY
9. Metaphors of Self in History: Subjectivity, Oral Narrative, and Immigration Studies
VIRGINIA YANS-MCLAUGHLIN
THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION
10. The Reactions of Black Americans to Immigration
LAWRENCE H. FUCHS
11. Reforming the Back Door: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 in Historical Perspective
ARTISTEDE R. ZOLBERG
Contributors