In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of
assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and
their children from the mainstream of American society closes over
time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as
Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first systematic treatment
of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the
immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has
shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration
law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite
immigrants and their children than in the past.
Assimilation is still driven, in claim, by the decisions of
immigrants and the second generation to improve their social and
material circumstances in America. But they also show that
immigrants, historically and today, have profoundly changed our
mainstream society and culture in the process of becoming
Americans.
Surveying a variety of domains--language, socioeconomic
attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriage--they
demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American
life. And they predict that it will blur the boundaries among the
major, racially defined populations, as nonwhites and Hispanics are
increasingly incorporated into the mainstream.
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