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.
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.
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.
Reflecting on the centenary of the publication of Robert E. Park and Ernest Burgess’s
Introduction to the Science of Sociology
(
1921
), this article attempts to add a new dimension to how that ...legacy might be construed. It has been a widely accepted view that the book was a landmark in the early history of American sociology, its major contribution revolving around its specification about what it meant to be a science of society. This sets the stage for the claim advanced in this article, which is that it also attempts to outline a perspective on how democracy might be achieved within the parameters of the pluralistic character of modern societies. It sets out to accomplish three things. First, it argues that in the book’s lengthy introductory chapter–authored by Park and published during the same year in the
American Journal of Sociology–
lays out a theoretical perspective that is primarily influenced by John Dewey, Émile Durkheim, and Georg Simmel. The article proceeds to examine in broad strokes how the following thirteen chapters fit together and add up to a cogent statement not only of the sociological enterprise intended to stimulate empirical research, but as elements of the differentiated and complex character of modernity that a democratic society must confront in establishing the bases for a new form of solidarity. This leads to an analysis of the chapter on assimilation, which should be read as the place where one finds the contours of a perspective on solidarity that while parallel to Durkheim’s work, goes beyond by offering more in terms of a perspective on democracy and inclusion in racially and ethnically diverse societies.
