Mass Migration to the United States: Classical and Contemporary Periods / Edition 1

by Pyong Gap Min, Andrew Beveridge, Nancy Foner Hunter College and the Gr, Steven J. Gold, Charles Jaret

Overview

During the mass migration period in the United States-between the years 1880 and 1930-an astounding 28 million people immigrated into the country. Min and his contributors offer a detailed evaluation of the differences and similarities between the immigrant groups from this earlier period and from the post-1965 contemporary period of immigration. In particular, they analyze trends in anti-immigrant attitudes and actions, changes in settlement patterns, entrepreneurship and business patterns, ethnic diversity, immigrant women's work, the intergenerational transmission of culture, and the naturalization process. The authors draw historical comparisons between the successive phases of immigration and the impact that they have had on evolving race relations in America. The book will be a valuable resource for instructors and researchers in the fields of immigration, race and ethnic studies, minorities and public policy, urban studies, ethnic history, demography, human geography, and sociology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780759102323
Publisher:	AltaMira Press
Publication date:	09/10/2002
Edition description:	2ND
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.84(w) x 8.92(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Pyong Gap Min teaches in the Department of Sociology at Queens College, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Part 0 Introduction Chapter 1: Troubled by Newcomers: Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Action During Two Eras of Mass Migration Chapter 2: The Changing Face of America: Contemporary Immigration and the Dynamics of Race/Ethnicity Chapter 3: Immigration and Conflict in the United States Chapter 4: Contemporary Immigrants' Advantages for Intergenerational Cultural Transmission Chapter 5: Naturalization and US Citizenship in Two Periods of Mass Migration (1890-1930 and 1965-2000) Chapter 6: Immigrant Residence and Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York, 1910 and 1990 Chapter 7: Immigrant Women and Work in New York City, Then and Now Chapter 8: From "the Jazz Singer" to "What a Country": A Comparison of Jewish Immigrants to the U.S., 1880-1930 and 1965-1998 Chapter 9: A Comparison of Pre- and Post-1965 Asian Immigrant Businesses

Editorial Reviews

The editor, sociologist Pyong Gap Min, has provided readers with a useful source of information about earlier and current immigration to the United States. The topics covered in each of the chapters provide sound data on important aspects of immigration including such issues as countries of origin, public opinion, sources of conflict, social mobility, rates of naturalization, and residence and neighborhood formation.

Journal of American Ethnic History

Current migration to the United States naturally awakens comparative interest in America's last mass migration, the New Immigration of 1880-1924. Professor Min's Mass Migration to the United States now makes available an outstanding and unique collection of specialized articles each of which deals directly with a different aspect of this essential comparison. The results are sometimes surprising, and will require people to rethink simplistic historical analogies. This volume should be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand migration in American life.

Ivan Light

American society is being transformed, once again, by immigration. More that one of five Americans are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Pyong Gap Min and his coauthors explain the impact of contemporary immigration—the post 1965 wave—to the United States with a systematic comparison of the present with the prior age in mass migration from 1880 to 1924. Although the new immigrants are from Latin America and Asia, compared to the European origins of the earlier wave of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, there are many parallels between the two eras of immigration. The research findings reported here will be of interest to specialists and to undergraduate students.

Charles Hirschman

The volume demonstrates the value of comparative-historical research and formulates important questions for future research. Given the plethora of immigration studies, the book provides a novel, illuminating, and long overdue methodological angle. As such, it would be an excellent book to read for scholars in the field who need a fresh discussion fo immigration concepts and theories. It would also be useful for those exploring mass migration for the first time.

Ethnic and Racial Studies - Susan Mannon

The volume demonstrates the value of comparative-historical research and formulates important questions for future research. Given the plethora of immigration studies, the book provides a novel, illuminating, and long overdue methodological angle. As such, it would be an excellent book to read for scholars in the field who need a fresh discussion fo immigration concepts and theories. It would also be useful for those exploring mass migration for the first time.
— Susan E. Mannon

Ethnic and Racial Studies

The volume demonstrates the value of comparative-historical research and formulates important questions for future research. Given the plethora of immigration studies, the book provides a novel, illuminating, and long overdue methodological angle. As such, it would be an excellent book to read for scholars in the field who need a fresh discussion fo immigration concepts and theories. It would also be useful for those exploring mass migration for the first time.

Ethnic and Racial Studies - Susan E. Mannon