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The integration of immigrants into American society

Title
The integration of immigrants into American society / Panel on the Integration of Immigrants Into American Society ; Mary C. Waters and Marisa Gerstein Pineau, editors ; Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Waters, Mary C.
  • Pineau, Marisa Gerstein
  • National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
  • Panel on the Integration of Immigrants into American Society (U.S.)
Description
xiii, 443 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm
Summary
Today, the 41 million immigrants in the United States represent 13.1 percent of the U.S. population. The U.S.-born children of immigrants, the second generation, represent another 37.1 million people, or 12 percent of the population. Thus, together the first and second generations account for one out of four members of the U.S. population. Whether they are successfully integrating is therefore a pressing and important question. Are new immigrants and their children being well integrated into American society, within and across generations? Do current policies and practices facilitate their integration? How is American society being transformed by the millions of immigrants who have arrived in recent decades. To answer these questions, this new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine summarizes what we know about how immigrants and their descendants are integrating into American society in a range of areas such as education, occupations, health, and language.
Subject
  • Americanization
  • Immigrants > United States > Social conditions
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Immigrants > Cultural assimilation
  • Immigrants > Social conditions
  • United States > Emigration and immigration
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Introduction -- Legal and institutional context for immigrant integration -- Legal status and immigrant integration -- Political and civic dimensions of immigrant integration -- Spatial dimensions of immigrant integration -- Socioeconomic dimensions of immigrant integration -- Sociocultural dimensions of immigrant integration -- Family dimensions of immigrant integration -- Health status and access to care -- Data on immigrants and immigrant integration.
ISBN
  • 9780309373982 (paperback)
  • 0309373980 (paperback)
LCCN
2015958960
OCLC
  • ocn945665693
  • 945665693
  • SCSB-5849990
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries