Kibria / Bowman / O'Leary Race and Immigration

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7979-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: PIMS - Polity Immigration and Society series

Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways. WithLatinos recently surpassing African Americans as the largestminority group in the US, attention has been focused on theimportant implications of immigration for the character and role ofrace in US life, including patterns of racial inequality and racialidentity. This insightful new book offers a fresh perspective on immigrationand its part in shaping the racial landscape of the US today.Moving away from one-dimensional views of this relationship, itemphasizes the dynamic and mutually formative interactions of raceand immigration. Drawing on a wide range of studies, it exploreskey aspects of the immigrant experience, such as the history ofimmigration laws, the formation of immigrant occupational niches,and developments of immigrant identity and community. Specifictopics covered include: the perceived crisis of unauthorizedimmigration; the growth of an immigrant rights movement; the roleof immigrant labor in the elder care industry; the racialstrategies of professional immigrants; and the formation ofpan-ethnic Latino identities. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book will beinvaluable for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate-levelcourses in the sociology of immigration, race and ethnicity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kibria, Nazli

Bowman, Cara

O'Leary, Megan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments viii
1 The Race-Immigration Nexus 1
2 Immigration Policy and Racial Formations 27
3 Race and the Occupational Strategies of Immigrants 60
4 Immigrant Identities and Racial Hierarchies 116
Conclusions: Race, Immigration, and the American Dream 162
Notes 168
References 173
Index 191

Über Autor(innen)

NAZLI KIBRIA is Professor of Sociology at Boston University.
CARA BOWMAN is a doctoral student at Boston University.
MEGAN O'LEARY is a doctoral student at Boston University.