Immigrant America

Alejandro Portes is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Princeton University and Research Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami. Rubén G. Rumbaut is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and founding chair of the American Sociological Association’s International Migration Section. They are the coauthors of Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation and coeditors of Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants in America.

Contents

List of Illustrations 
List of Tables 
Preface to the Fifth Edition 
Preface to the Fourth Edition 
Preface to the Third Edition 
Preface to the Second Edition 
Preface to the First Edition 
Acknowledgments for the Fifth Edition 
Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition 
Acknowledgments for the Third Edition 
Acknowledgments for the Second Edition 
Acknowledgments for the First Edition 

1. The Four Phases of U.S.-Bound Immigration 
2. Theoretical Overview 
3. Moving: Patterns of Immigrant Settlement and Spatial Mobility 
4. Making It in America: Education, Occupation, and Entrepreneurship 
5. From Immigrants to Ethnics: Identity, Citizenship, and Political Participation 
6. Language: Diversity and Resilience 
7. The New Second Generation 
8. Religion: The Enduring Presence 
9. Conclusion 

Notes 
References 
Index