Immigrant America: A Portrait

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants' incorporation within American society.

With the latest available data, Immigrant America further explores the economic, political, regional, linguistic, and religious aspects of immigration. It offers detailed analyses of the adaptation process experienced by adult children of immigrants and adds an updated and expanded concluding chapter on changing immigration policy regimes both past and present.


Author: Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 04/09/2024
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.8lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780520396289
5th Fifth Edition, Edition