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Description:The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population under eighteen years old—one out of every five children in the United States. Will this generation of immigrant children follow the path of earlier waves of immigrants and gradually assimilate into mainstream American life, or does the global nature of the contemporary world mean that the trajectory of today's immigrants will be fundamentally different? Rather than severing their ties to their home countries, many immigrants today sustain economic, political, and religious ties to their homelands, even as they work, vote, and pray in the countries that receive them. The Changing Face of Home is the first book to examine the extent to which the children of immigrants engage in such transnational practices.Because most second generation immigrants are still young, there is much debate among immigration scholars about the extent to which these children will engage in transnational practices in the future. While the contributors to this volume find some evidence of transnationalism among the children of immigrants, they disagree over whether these activities will have any long-term effects. Part I of the volume explores how the practice and consequences of transnationalism vary among different groups. Contributors Philip Kasinitz, Mary Waters, and John Mollenkopf use findings from their large study of immigrant communities in New York City to show how both distance and politics play important roles in determining levels of transnational activity. For example, many Latin American and Caribbean immigrants are "circular migrants" spending much time in both their home countries and the United States, while Russian Jews and Chinese immigrants have far less contact of any kind with their homelands.In Part II, the contributors comment on these findings, offering suggestions for reconceptualizing the issue and bridging analytical differences. In her chapter, Nancy Foner makes valuable comparisons with past waves of immigrants as a way of understanding the conditions that may foster or mitigate transnationalism among today's immigrants. The final set of chapters examines how home and host country value systems shape how second generation immigrants construct their identities, and the economic, social, and political communities to which they ultimately express allegiance.The Changing Face of Home presents an important first round of research and dialogue on the activities and identities of the second generation vis-a-vis their ancestral homelands, and raises important questions for future research.Contents:Introduction / Peggy Levitt and Mary C. Waters --Part I. Historical, Empirical, and Theoretical Perspectives --Chapter 1. An Early Transnationalism? The Japanese American Second Generation of Hawaii in the Interwar Years / Reed Ueda --Chapter 2. Severed or Sustained Attachments? Language, Identity, and Imagined Communities in the Post-Immigrant Generation / Ruben G. Rumhaut --Chapter 3. Transnationalism and the Children of Immigrants in Contemporary New York / Philip Kasinitz, Mary C. Waters, John H. Mollenkopf and Merih Anil --Chapter 4. The Ties That Change: Relations to the Ancestral Home over the Life Cycle / Peggy Levitt --Chapter 5. Life Course, Generation, and Social Location as Factors Shaping Second-Generation Transnational Life / Robert C. Smith --Chapter 6. The Generation of Identity: Redefining the Second Generation Within a Transnational Social Field / Georges E. Fouron and Nina Glick-Schiller --Part II. Questioning Some Underlying Assumptions --Chapter 7. On Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Meaning of Immigrant Generations / Susan Eckstein --Chapter 8. Second-Generation Transnationalism / Joel Perlmann --Chapter 9. The Study of Transnationalism Among the Children of Immigrants: Where We Are and Where We Should Be Headed / Michael Jones-Correa --Chapter 10. Second-Generation Transnationalism, Then and Now / Nancy Foner --Part III. Using a Transnational Lens to Understand the Children of Immigrants --Chapter 11. There's No Place Like "Home": Emotional Transnationalism and the Struggles of Second-Generation Filipinos / Diane L. Wolf --Chapter 12. Of Blood, Belonging, and Homeland Trips: Transnationalism and Identity Among Second-Generation Chinese and Korean Americans / Nazli Kibria --Chapter 13. Creating Histories for the Present: Second-Generation (Re)definitions of Chinese American Culture / Andrea Louie --Chapter 14. Second-Generation West Indian Transnationalism / Milton Vickerman --Chapter 15. "Viet Nam, Nuoc Toi" (Vietnam, My Country): Vietnamese Americans and Transnationalism / Yen Le Espiritu and Thorn Tran.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation. 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Description: The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population under eighteen years old—one out of every five children in the United States. Will this generation of immigrant children follow the path of earlier waves of immigrants and gradually assimilate into mainstream American life, or does the global nature of the contemporary world mean that the trajectory of today's immigrants will be fundamentally different? Rather than severing their ties to their home countries, many immigrants today sustain economic, political, and religious ties to their homelands, even as they work, vote, and pray in the countries that receive them. The Changing Face of Home is the first book to examine the extent to which the children of immigrants engage in such transnational practices.Because most second generation immigrants are still young, there is much debate among immigration scholars about the extent to which these children will engage in transnational practices in the future. While the contributors to this volume find some evidence of transnationalism among the children of immigrants, they disagree over whether these activities will have any long-term effects. Part I of the volume explores how the practice and consequences of transnationalism vary among different groups. Contributors Philip Kasinitz, Mary Waters, and John Mollenkopf use findings from their large study of immigrant communities in New York City to show how both distance and politics play important roles in determining levels of transnational activity. For example, many Latin American and Caribbean immigrants are "circular migrants" spending much time in both their home countries and the United States, while Russian Jews and Chinese immigrants have far less contact of any kind with their homelands.In Part II, the contributors comment on these findings, offering suggestions for reconceptualizing the issue and bridging analytical differences. In her chapter, Nancy Foner makes valuable comparisons with past waves of immigrants as a way of understanding the conditions that may foster or mitigate transnationalism among today's immigrants. The final set of chapters examines how home and host country value systems shape how second generation immigrants construct their identities, and the economic, social, and political communities to which they ultimately express allegiance.The Changing Face of Home presents an important first round of research and dialogue on the activities and identities of the second generation vis-a-vis their ancestral homelands, and raises important questions for future research.Contents:Introduction / Peggy Levitt and Mary C. Waters --Part I. Historical, Empirical, and Theoretical Perspectives --Chapter 1. An Early Transnationalism? The Japanese American Second Generation of Hawaii in the Interwar Years / Reed Ueda --Chapter 2. Severed or Sustained Attachments? Language, Identity, and Imagined Communities in the Post-Immigrant Generation / Ruben G. Rumhaut --Chapter 3. Transnationalism and the Children of Immigrants in Contemporary New York / Philip Kasinitz, Mary C. Waters, John H. Mollenkopf and Merih Anil --Chapter 4. The Ties That Change: Relations to the Ancestral Home over the Life Cycle / Peggy Levitt --Chapter 5. Life Course, Generation, and Social Location as Factors Shaping Second-Generation Transnational Life / Robert C. Smith --Chapter 6. The Generation of Identity: Redefining the Second Generation Within a Transnational Social Field / Georges E. Fouron and Nina Glick-Schiller --Part II. Questioning Some Underlying Assumptions --Chapter 7. On Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Meaning of Immigrant Generations / Susan Eckstein --Chapter 8. Second-Generation Transnationalism / Joel Perlmann --Chapter 9. The Study of Transnationalism Among the Children of Immigrants: Where We Are and Where We Should Be Headed / Michael Jones-Correa --Chapter 10. Second-Generation Transnationalism, Then and Now / Nancy Foner --Part III. Using a Transnational Lens to Understand the Children of Immigrants --Chapter 11. There's No Place Like "Home": Emotional Transnationalism and the Struggles of Second-Generation Filipinos / Diane L. Wolf --Chapter 12. Of Blood, Belonging, and Homeland Trips: Transnationalism and Identity Among Second-Generation Chinese and Korean Americans / Nazli Kibria --Chapter 13. Creating Histories for the Present: Second-Generation (Re)definitions of Chinese American Culture / Andrea Louie --Chapter 14. Second-Generation West Indian Transnationalism / Milton Vickerman --Chapter 15. "Viet Nam, Nuoc Toi" (Vietnam, My Country): Vietnamese Americans and Transnationalism / Yen Le Espiritu and Thorn Tran.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation. 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