Nancy Foner: 3 books
In a New Land
A Comparative View of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005
2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title!
According to the 2000 census, more than 10% of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes one fifth of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Leading immigration studies...
From Ellis Island to JFK
New York`s Two Great Waves of Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the history, the very personality, of New York City, few events loom larger than the wave of immigration at the turn of the last century. Today a similar influx of new immigrants is transforming the city again. Better than one in three New Yorkers is now an immigrant. From Ellis Island to JFK is the...
Strangers No More
Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
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...