Langbeschreibung
The Sociology of Immigration provides students with a contemporary sociological perspective on the entire immigration process: deciding to leave one's home country, establishing oneself in a new host society, being received by the host population, and deciding whether to assimilate or seek citizenship.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Studying ImmigrationChapter 2: Why do People become Immigrants?Chapter 3: Who becomes an Immigrant?: A Demographic ProfileChapter 4: A Brief History of Immigration to the United StatesChapter 5: Immigrant Destinations in the Rest of the WorldChapter 6: Becoming an ImmigrantChapter 7: Assimilation and its VariantsChapter 8: Transnationalism and MulticulturalismChapter 9: Anti-Immigrant SentimentChapter 10: Undocumented ImmigrantsChapter 11: Forcibly Displaced People: Refugees and Asylum SeekersChapter 12: Acquiring CitizenshipChapter 13: Busting Myths about ImmigrationChapter 14: Emigration: What Becomes of the Origin Society?