The New Immigrant and the American Family: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration

by Sußrez-Orozco,Marcelo M.

• ISBN13: 9780815337089
• ISBN10: 0815337086
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the United States. The volumes contain the essential scholarship of the last decade and present key contributions reflecting the major theoretical, empirical, and policy debates about the new immigration. The material addresses vital issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic status as they intersect with the contemporary immigration experience. Organized by theme, each volume stands as an independent contribution to immigration studies, with seminal journal articles and book chapters from hard-to-find sources, comprising the most important literature on the subject. The individual volumes include a brief preface presenting the major themes that emerge in the materials, and a bibliography of further recommended readings. In its coverage of the most influential scholarship on the social, economic, educational, and civil rights issues revolving around new immigration,this collection provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including contemporary American history, public policy, education, sociology, political science, demographics, immigration law, ESL, linguistics, and more.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	vii
Volume Introduction	ix
Identities Under Siege: Immigration Stress and Social Mirroring Among the Children of Immigrants	2	(33)
Carola Suarez Orozco
Migration and Family Conflict	35	(12)
Carlos Sluzki
Migration and Stress	47	(15)
Judith T. Shuval
Acculturative Stress of Hispanics: Loss and Challenge	62	(7)
Julie F. Smart
David Smart
The Psychological Experience of Immigration: A Developmental Perspective	69	(42)
Cynthia Garcia Coll
Katherine Magnuson
The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes	111	(14)
Nancy Foner
Immigrant Families at Risk: Factors that Undermine Chances for Success	125	(10)
Mary Waters
The Reconstruction of the Ethnic Community and the Refugee Family	135	(23)
Min Zhou
Carl L. Bankston III
The Chinese American Family	158	(29)
Morrison G. Wong
The Korean American Family	187	(32)
Pyong Gap Min
The Mexican American Family	219	(22)
David Alvirez
Frank Bean
Understanding and Working with Haitian Immigrant Families	241	(18)
Walter Pierce
Erlange Elisme
Gender and Contemporary U.S. Immigration	259	(13)
Pierrette Hondagneu-Satelo
Gender Roles and Settlement Activities Among Children and Their Immigrant Families	272	(23)
Abel Valenzuela Jr.
Acknowledgments	295