The New Immigrant and the American Family

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.