Incorporating Diversity: Rethinking Assimilation in a Multicultural Age

by Kivisto,Peter

• ISBN13: 9781594510816
• ISBN10: 1594510814
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-06-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Societies today are increasingly characterized by their ethnic, racial, and religious diversity. One key question raised by the global migration of people is how they do or do not come to be incorporated into their new social environments. For over a century, assimilation has been the concept used in explaining the processes of immigrant incorporation into a new society. It has also been applied to indigenous peoples, to refugees, and to involuntary migrants caught up in the slave trade. Assimilation has confronted many scholarly challenges which were often intermeshed with particular political agendas.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
I. Introduction
1 The Revival of Assimilation in Historical Perspective	3	(30)
Peter Kivisto
II. The Classical Formulation
2 Racial Assimilation in Secondary Groups with Particular Reference to the Negro	33	(14)
Robert E. Park
3 The American Ethnic Group	47	(12)
W. Lloyd Warner and Leo Srole
4 Assimilation into the Larger Society	59	(23)
Tamotsu Shibutani and Kian M. Kwan
5 American Immigrant Groups: Ethnic Identification and the Problem of Generations	82	(13)
Vladimir C. Nahirny and Joshua A. Fishman
6 The Nature of Assimilation	95	(18)
Milton M. Gordon
III. Assimilation Revisited
7 Is Assimilation Dead?	113	(15)
Nathan Glazer
8 In Defense of the Assimilation Model	128	(10)
Ewa Morawska
9 Toward a Reconciliation of "Assimilation" and "Pluralism": The Interplay of Acculturation and Ethnic Retention	138	(16)
Herbert J. Gans
10 The Melting and the Pot: Assimilation and Variety in American Life	154	(20)
Rubén G. Rumbaut
11 Assimilation and Dissimilation	174	(15)
J. Milton Yinger
12 Race, Religion, and Nationality in American Society: A Model of Ethnicity-From Contact to Assimilation	189	(24)
Elliott R. Barkan
IV New Directions
13 The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants	213	(22)
Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou
14 Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration	235	(42)
Richard Alba and Victor Nee
15 Migration and Community Formation under Conditions of Globalization	277	(22)
Stephen Castles
16 Social Spaces, Transnational Immigrant Communities, and the Politics of Incorporation	299	(21)
Peter Kivisto
17 Theorizing the "Modes of Incorporation": Assimilation, Hyphenization, and Multiculturalism as Varieties of Civic Participation	320	(17)
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Index	337	(12)
About the Editor	349