1st Edition

The New Immigration An Interdisciplinary Reader

    380 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    At the turn of the millennium, the United States has the largest number of immigrants in its history. As a consequence, immigration has emerged once again as a subject of scholarly inquiry and policy debate. This volume brings together the dominant conceptual and theoretical work on the "New Immigration" from such disparate disciplines as anthropology, demography, psychology, and sociology. Immigration today is a global and transnational phenomenon that affects every region of the world with unprecedented force. Although this volume is devoted to scholarly work on the new immigration in the U.S. setting, any of the broader conceptual issues covered here also apply to other post-industrial countries such as France, Germany, and Japan.

    Introduction by Marcelo M. Surez-Orozco, Carola Surez-Orozco, and Desiree Baolian Qin PART I: Conceptual and Theoretical Considerations Chapter 1: Right Moves? Immigration, Globalization, Utopia and Dystopia Marcelo M. Surez-Orozco Chapter 2: Principles of Operation: Theories of International Migration Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone Chapter 3: Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration Richard Alba and Victor Nee Chapter 4: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Assimilation But Were Afraid To Ask Marcelo M. Surez-Orozco Chapter 5: The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou PART II: Psychological Aspects of Immigration: Families in Transition Chapter 6: The Psychological Experience of Immigration: A Developmental Perspective Cynthia García Coll and Katherine Magnuson Chapter 7: Identities Under Siege: Immigration Stress and Social Mirroring Among the Children of Immigrants Carola Suàrez-Orozco Chapter 8: The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes Nancy Foner Chapter 9: Families on the Frontier: From Braceros in the Fields to Braceras in the Home Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo Chapter 10: Making Up For Lost Time: The Experience of Separation and Reunification Among Immigrant Families Carola Surez-Orozco, Irina L.G. Todorova, and Josephine Louie Chapter 11: Ambiguous Loss: Risk and Resilience in Latino Immigrant Families Celia Jaes Falicov Chapter 12: Cultural Mourning, Immigration, and Engagement: Vignettes from the Mexican Experience Ricardo Ainslie PART III: Immigration, Language, and Education Chapter 13: Learning English in California: Guideposts for the Nation Patricia Gndara Chapter 14: Bilingualism and Second-Language Learning Diane August and Kenji Hakuta Chapter 15: A Meta-Analysis of Selected Studies on the Effectiveness of Bilingual Education Ann C. Willig Chapter 16: When Learning a Second Language Means Losing the First Lily Wong Fillmore Chapter 17: Educational Progress of Children of Immigrants: The Roles of Class, Ethnicity, and School Context Alejandro Portes Dag MacLeod Chapter 18: Optimism and Achievement: The Educational Performance of Immigrant Youth Grace Kao and Marta Tienda Chapter 19: Immigrant Boys' Experiences in U.S. Schools Carola Surez-Orozco and Desirée Baolian Qin Permissions Index

    Biography

    Desiree Baolian Qin-Hilliard, CAROLA SUAREZ-OROZCO, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco