Beyond a Border Kivisto, Peter; Faist, Thomas
2009, 2010, 2012-06-11, 2014-05-20, 20100101
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The most up-to-date analysis of today s immigration issues. This comparative text examines contemporary immigration across the globe, focusing on 20 major nations.
This article explores the collective journalistic narrative of Donald Trump’s business career. While Trump’s presentation of self as a successful businessman and celebrity was his primary rationale ...for his presidential candidacy, these investigative reporters paint a negative portrait of his conduct. Two years into the Trump administration, it is mired by a remarkable series of financial and other scandals, resulting in the forced resignations of top officials and increasing criticism of others. The emerging narrative is that the administration has attracted the type of individual drawn to a culture of corruption, which is in turn seen as emanating from the business culture embraced by Trump and his family.
During the past decade, transnationalism has entered the lexicon of migration scholars. As with other terms used in the study of immigration and ethnicity, this concept suffers from ambiguity as a ...result of competing definitions that fail to specify the temporal and spatial parameters of the term and to adequately locate it vis-à-vis older concepts such as assimilation and cultural pluralism. This article offers a review and critique of the ways the term has come to be employed at the hands of key spokespersons that have articulated the most sustained theoretical rationales to date for transnationalism as a conceptual construct to account for new immigrant identities and communities. The conclusion of the essay offers in schematic form an alternative assessment of transnationalism that locates it as one potential subset of assimilation theory, rather than as an alternative to it.
As the best single-source collection of classic and contemporary readings on the subject, this anthology will be a valuable reference to scholars of immigration, race and ethnicity, national ...identity, and the history of ideas, and indispensable for courses in history and the social sciences dealing with these topics.'
Ruben G. Rumbaut, co-author of Immigrant America: A Portrait and Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation Societies today are increasingly characterized by their ethnic, racial, and religious diversity. One key question raised by the global migration of people is how they do or do not come to be incorporated into their new social environments. For over a century, assimilation has been the concept used in explaining the processes of immigrant incorporation into a new society. It has also been applied to indigenous peoples, to refugees, and to involuntary migrants caught up in the slave trade. Assimilation has confronted many scholarly challenges which were often intermeshed with particular political agendas. This book allows readers to obtain a clearer sense of the canonical formulation of assimilation theory and an understanding of the key themes and issues contained in current efforts to rethink and revise the classical perspective for today's changing world.
This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current ...re-discovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical perspective.
Martin Bulmer, Sociological fox Kivisto, Peter
Ethnic and racial studies,
06/11/2022, Letnik:
45, Številka:
8
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This symposium is a tribute to the distinguished career of Martin Bulmer upon his decision to retire from his editorial responsibilities at Ethnic and Racial Studies.
On November 8, 2016, American voters elected Donald J. Trump to become the 45th President of the United States. Peter Kivisto analyses how this happened, focusing on who Trump is, who his supporters ...are, and the role of the media, right-wing Christians, and the Republican Party in making Trump's victory possible.
On November 8, 2016, American voters elected Donald J. Trump to become the 45th President of the United States. Peter Kivisto analyses how this happened, focusing on who Trump is, who his supporters ...are, and the role of the media, right-wing Christians, and the Republican Party in making Trump's victory possible.
The paper examines the origins of the idea of "the social question" in the nineteenth century, the rise of the welfare state, the challenge of neoliberalism, and the new transnationalized social ...question.
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