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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823466703321

Titolo

What’s New about the “New” Immigration? : Traditions and Transformations in the United States since 1965 / / edited by Marilyn Halter, Marilynn S. Johnson, Katheryn P. Viens, Conrad Edick Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-349-50325-8

1-137-48385-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

HIS036060HIS037070HIS038000

Disciplina

305.9/069120973

Soggetti

America-History

History, Modern

United States-History

History of the Americas

Modern History

US History

United States Emigration and immigration History

United States Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Place -- Chapter 1 The Metropolitan Diaspora -- Chapter 2 Racializing Latinos in the Nuevo South -- Chapter 3 The Politics of Place in Immigrant and Receiving Communities -- Part II Identity -- Chapter 4 Intergenerational Relations in Immigrant Families -- Chapter 5 Bosnians in Search of Community -- Chapter 6 The Ties That Bind -- Part III Society -- Chapter 7 Engaging the Public Sphere -- Chapter 8 Chinese American Participation in Transnational Activities and US-China Relations -- Chapter 9 What's New about the New Refugees? -- Chapter 10 Immigration Politics, Service Labor, and the Problem of the Undocumented Worker in Southern California -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Historians commonly point to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act



as the inception of a new chapter in the story of American immigration. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from varied disciplines to consider what is genuinely new about this period.