The New Immigrant and the American Family : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration

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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 Series Introduction 8 Volume Introduction 10 Identities Under Siege: Immigration Stress and Social Mirroring Among the Children of Immigrants 15 Migration and Family Conflict 48 Migration and Stress 60 Acculturative Stress of Hispanics: Loss and Challenge 75 The Psychological Experience of Immigration: A Developmental Perspective 82 The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes 124 Immigrant Families at Risk: Factors that Undermine Chances for Success 138 The Reconstruction of the Ethnic Community and the Refugee Family 148 The Chinese American Family 171 The Korean American Family 200 The Mexican American Family 232 Understanding and Working with Haitian Immigrant Families 254 Gender and Contemporary U.S. Immigration 272 Gender Roles and Settlement Activities Among Children and Their Immigrant Families 285 Acknowledgments 308 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration V. 1. Theoretical Perspectives -- V. 2. The New Immigrant In The American Economy -- V. 3. The New Immigrant In American Society -- V. 4. The New Immigrant And The American Family -- V. 5. The New Immigrant And American Schools -- V. 6. The New Immigrant And Language. Edited With Introductions By Marcelo M. Suárez-orozco, Carola Suárez-orozco, Desirée Qin-hilliard.