Immigrant Experiences In North America

Author : Harald Bauder,John Shields
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551307145

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Immigrant Experiences in North America by Harald Bauder,John Shields Pdf

Immigration, settlement, and integration are vital issues in the twenty-first century—they propel economic development, transform cities and towns, shape political debate, and challenge established national identities. This original collection provides the first comprehensive introduction to the contemporary immigrant experience in both the United States and Canada by exploring national, regional, and metropolitan contexts. With essays by an interdisciplinary team of American and Canadian scholars, this volume explores major themes such as immigration policy; labour markets and the economy; gender; demographic and settlement patterns; health, well-being, and food security; education; and media. Each chapter includes instructive case examples, recommended further readings, links to web-based resources, and questions for critical thought. Engaging and accessible, Immigrant Experiences in North America will appeal to students and instructors across the social sciences, including geography, political science, sociology, policy studies, and urban and regional planning.

Author : Katherine Payant,Toby Rose
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015047452456

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The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature by Katherine Payant,Toby Rose Pdf

Although many studies have been done of individual authors, at present few works exist which compare different immigrant literatures from the past and present. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and diverse cultures that are reflected in the literature. This book examines the representation of the immigrant experience in North American literature. Most of the chapters discuss the portrayal of particular ethnic groups by specific authors during a century of American and Canadian history. One essay highlights controversies among recent writers and critics concerning how their cultures should be portrayed, and the introductory and concluding essays provide historical, cultural, and literary contexts for a comparative approach to North American immigrant literature. The expert contributors expose the reader to a variety of immigrant experiences in the literature of past and present, experiences in which the characters attempt to reconcile their ancestral heritage with that of their adopted land. Variations of three basic stances can be found in these works: the essentialist, rejecting the values of the dominant culture and resisting assimilation; the assimilationist, embracing the attitudes and behaviors of the new culture; and the hybridist, incorporating the old and new. The book additionally explores such topics as race, class, and gender, as well as the intergenerational conflict found in much immigrant literature.

Author : Victoria M. Esses,Donald E. Abelson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773549456

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Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America by Victoria M. Esses,Donald E. Abelson Pdf

Human migration has reached an unprecedented level, and the numbers are expected to continue growing into the foreseeable future. Host societies and migrants face challenges in ensuring that the benefits of migration accrue to both parties, and that economic and socio-cultural costs are minimized. An insightful comparative examination of the policies and practices that manage and support immigrants, Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America identifies and addresses issues that arose in the early years of the twenty-first century and considers what to expect in the years ahead. The volume begins with an overview of immigration policies and practices in the United States and Canada, then moves to an investigation of the economic and socio-cultural aspects, and concludes with a dialogue on precarious migration. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, the editors include research from the areas of psychology, political science, economics, sociology, and public policy. Underscoring the complicated nature of immigration, this collection aims to foster further discussion and inspire future research in the United States and Canada.

Author : Carlos Teixeira,Wei Li
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781442622906

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The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities by Carlos Teixeira,Wei Li Pdf

Since the 1960s, new and more diverse waves of immigrants have changed the demographic composition and the landscapes of North American cities and their suburbs. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants have fared in getting access to jobs and housing in urban centres across the continent. Using a variety of methodologies, contributors from both countries present original research on a range of issues connected to housing and economic experiences. They offer both a broad overview and a series of detailed case studies that highlight the experiences of particular communities. This volume demonstrates that, while the United States and Canada have much in common when it comes to urban development, there are important structural and historical differences between the immigrant experiences in these two countries.

Author : Walter A. Ewing
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538100516

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Immigrant Experiences by Walter A. Ewing Pdf

Immigrant Experiences weaves together detailed historical and contemporary examples of immigration to the United States that move beyond hackneyed stereotypes about immigrants to give readers a fact-based understanding of why and how immigration occurs.

Author : Dorothy Hoobler,Thomas Hoobler
Publisher : Scholastic Reference
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0439162971

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We are Americans by Dorothy Hoobler,Thomas Hoobler Pdf

A history of immigration to America, from speculation about the earliest immigrants to the present day.

Author : Carlos Teixeira,Audrey Kobayashi,Wei Li
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195437829

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Immigrant Geographies of North American Cities by Carlos Teixeira,Audrey Kobayashi,Wei Li Pdf

Immigrant Geographies of North American Cities is unique in that most chapters are written by both an American and a Canadian scholar, drawn from among the top scholars in both countries. This textbook gives students access to a wide variety of scholarly perspectives, to help create a foundation for their study and research. This book also fills a gap in scholarly literature on immigrant geographies, by providing a text book that compares and contrasts immigrant experiences in the Unites States those experiences in Canada. Part I examines the history of immigration in both countries, and the current immigration situation in the major receiving centres in both countries. Part II examines the imprint of immigration on North American cities and suburbs by looking at the barriers and opportunities immigrants face in obtaining accessing housing, achieving socioeconomic and economic parity with the native-born population, access to quality health care, and improving rates of political incorporation. Part II also looks at the settlement patterns of newly arrived immigrants, compares current patterns to historical trends, and evaluates the role that gender plays in forming these patterns. Part III examines the specific patterns of immigration for four non-European immigrant groups. The first three chapters in Part III look at the experiences of Asian, Latin American, and Black immigrants by comparing and contrasting specific countries of origin and specific receiving centres for each group in both Canada and the United States. The last chapter focuses on cross border migration between Canada and the United States and the impact that these immigrants have on their new countries.

Author : Marilyn Barber,Murray Watson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887554988

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Invisible Immigrants by Marilyn Barber,Murray Watson Pdf

Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England’s last major wave of emigration between the 1940s and the 1970s. Engaging life story oral histories reveal the aspirations, adventures, occasional naïveté, and challenges of these hidden immigrants. Postwar English immigrants believed they were moving to a familiar British country. Instead, like other immigrants, they found they had to deal with separation from home and family while adapting to a new country, a new landscape, and a new culture. Although English immigrants did not appear visibly different from their new neighbours, as soon as they spoke, they were immediately identified as “foreign.” Barber and Watson reveal the personal nature of the migration experience and how socio-economic structures, gender expectations, and marital status shaped possibilities and responses. In postwar North America dramatic changes in both technology and the formation of national identities influenced their new lives and helped shape their memories. Their stories contribute to our understanding of postwar immigration and fill a significant gap in the history of English migration to Canada.

Author : Ruth McKoy Lowery,Rose Pringle,Mary Ellen Oslick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475847437

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Land of Opportunity by Ruth McKoy Lowery,Rose Pringle,Mary Ellen Oslick Pdf

Using the lens of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning.

Author : Frank J. Coppa,Thomas J. Curran
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003903460

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The Immigrant Experience in America by Frank J. Coppa,Thomas J. Curran Pdf

Author : Julian Agyeman,Sydney Giacalone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0262357550

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The Immigrant-food Nexus by Julian Agyeman,Sydney Giacalone Pdf

The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodways. This volume considers the intersection of food and immigration at both the macroscale of national policy and the microscale of immigrant foodways—the intimate, daily performances of identity, culture, and community through food.

Author : Laurie K Bertram
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442663015

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The Viking Immigrants by Laurie K Bertram Pdf

A Viking statue, a coffee pot, a ghost story, and a controversial cake: What can the things that immigrants treasured tell us about their history? Between 1870 and 1914 almost one-quarter of Iceland’s population migrated to North America, forming enclaves in both the United States and Canada. This book examines the multi-sensory side of the immigrant past through rare photographs, interviews, artefacts, and early recipes. By revealing the hidden histories behind everyday traditions, The Viking Immigrants maps the transformation of Icelandic North American culture over a century and a half.

Author : David M. Reimers
Publisher : Chelsea House Pub
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0877548811

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The Immigrant Experience by David M. Reimers Pdf

Discusses the vast influx of immigrants to North America beginning almost 10,000 years ago.

Author : Richard Alba,Nancy Foner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691176208

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Strangers No More by Richard Alba,Nancy Foner Pdf

An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and Canada Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries—France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands—and, across the Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This systematic, data-rich comparison reveals their progress and the barriers they face in an array of institutions—from labor markets and neighborhoods to educational and political systems—and considers the controversial questions of religion, race, identity, and intermarriage. Richard Alba and Nancy Foner shed new light on questions at the heart of concerns about immigration. They analyze why immigrant religion is a more significant divide in Western Europe than in the United States, where race is a more severe obstacle. They look at why, despite fears in Europe about the rise of immigrant ghettoes, residential segregation is much less of a problem for immigrant minorities there than in the United States. They explore why everywhere, growing economic inequality and the proliferation of precarious, low-wage jobs pose dilemmas for the second generation. They also evaluate perspectives often proposed to explain the success of immigrant integration in certain countries, including nationally specific models, the political economy, and the histories of Canada and the United States as settler societies. Strangers No More delves into issues of pivotal importance for the present and future of Western societies, where immigrants and their children form ever-larger shares of the population.

Author : Brynn Baker
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781491441282

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Life in America by Brynn Baker Pdf

"Immigrant groups were not treated equally when they arrived in America... Compare and contrast immigrant experiences and how those experiences changed the United States.