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The Sociology of Immigration

Crossing Borders, Creating New Lives
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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.
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Studying Immigration Chapter 2: Why do People become Immigrants? Chapter 3: Who becomes an Immigrant?: A Demographic Profile Chapter 4: A Brief History of Immigration to the United States Chapter 5: Immigrant Destinations in the Rest of the World Chapter 6: Becoming an Immigrant Chapter 7: Assimilation and its Variants Chapter 8: Transnationalism and Multiculturalism Chapter 9: Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Chapter 10: Undocumented Immigrants Chapter 11: Forcibly Displaced People: Refugees and Asylum Seekers Chapter 12: Acquiring Citizenship Chapter 13: Busting Myths about Immigration Chapter 14: Emigration: What Becomes of the Origin Society?
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