According to the 2000 census, foreign-born US residents, together with their American-born children, constitute one fifth of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Nancy Foner, answers this question in her study of comparative immigration.
This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive analysis of the possibilities and limitations of the idea of citizenship, and its relevance to social problems and social policies in advanced industrial societies. Fred Twine demonstrates that two concepts are essential to an understanding of the issue of citizenship: the socially embedded nature of human agents, and their interdependence with each other and with the natural and social worlds they inhabit. In contrast to the glorification of a presumed free-floating consumer, Twine emphasises the social nature of individual needs and individual rights. He also shows that interdependence is not limited to the mutual linkages within advanced industrial societies, but extends both to the relations between developed and developing nations, and to the environmental contexts of human existence. Showing how a truly social vision of citizenship offers ways in which human worlds are socially created, and can be re-created, Citizenship and Social Rights will be of interest to scholars and students in sociology, social policy, politics and philosophy.
Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. In Other Immigrants, David M. Reimers offers a comprehensive account of non- European immigration, chronicling the stories of frequently overlooked Americans.
Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians represent three of every four immigrants who arrived in the United States after 1970. In Other Immigrants, David M. Reimers offers a comprehensive account of non- European immigration, chronicling the stories of frequently overlooked Americans.
Diversity and Similarity Across Europe and the United States
This volume explores the experience of nine Western European nations and the United States in this area of criminal justice policy and practice. It highlights diversities and similarities found in law enforcement priorities, punishment philosophy and practices, and media coverage. The authors also incorporate discourse on political, scholarly and ......
Contemporary Irish Poets and Migrations to America
This monograph studies the effects and consequences of the ceaseless travels of Irish poets in search of an audience and a paycheck. Tell argues these migrations have altered the very core of Irish poetry. Poets such as Muldoon, Mahon, Heaney, Montague and Boland are discussed in depth. The nature of the Irish poetic "voice" and the tonality of ......
Through moving oral histories, Ji-Yeon Yuh tells an important, at times heartbreaking, story of Korean military brides. She takes us beyond the stereotypes and reveals their roles within their families, communities, and Korean immigration to the U.S.
This book, written by one of the leading authorities on migration, traces the growth of global migration since 1945, showing how it has produced fundamental economic, social and cultural changes in most parts of the world. Using techniques of comparative analysis the book shows the gap between global migration and policy. As the postwar demand ......
