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  • Immigration

    How the Past Shapes the Present

    by Nancy Foner ...
    American history is, in part, a history of immigration – of waves of people from other lands making their way to America's shores.Immigration: How the Past Shapes the Present argues that the past is critical in understanding current immigration; that a new historical perspective offers important insights into what is happening today. Foner examines both the facts of immigration in the past and how ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • New York and Amsterdam

    Immigration and the New Urban Landscape

    by Nancy Foner, Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak, Rogier van Reekum ...
    A thought-provoking essay collection exploring the effects of extensive immigration on heavily populated urban centers.Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam, which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have populations that are more than a third foreign-born.These cities have had to deal with the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In a New Land

    A Comparative View of Immigration

    by Nancy Foner ...
    2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA comparative analysis of the U.S.'s contemporary immigrants to those who arrived a century agoAccording to the 2000 census, more than 10% of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes one fifth of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Leading immigration studies ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • One Quarter of the Nation

    Immigration and the Transformation of America

    by Nancy Foner ...
    An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern AmericaThe impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched book by one of America’s leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.An astonishing number of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • From Ellis Island to JFK

    New York`s Two Great Waves of Immigration

    by Professor Nancy Foner ...
    In the history, the very personality, of New York City, few events loom larger than the wave of immigration at the turn of the last century. Today a similar influx of new immigrants is transforming the city again. Better than one in three New Yorkers is now an immigrant. From Ellis Island to JFK is the first in-depth study that compares these two huge social changes.A key contribution of this book ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    One Quarter of the Nation

    Immigration and the Transformation of America

    by Nancy Foner ...
    Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 13 min

    The impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched book by one of America's leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.An astonishing number of immigrants and their children—nearly eighty-six million people—now live in ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Across Generations

    Immigrant Families in America

    Edited by Nancy Foner ...
    Immigrants and their American-born children represent about one quarter of the United States population. Drawing on rich, in-depth ethnographic research, the fascinating case studies in Across Generations examine the intricacies of relations between the generations in a broad range of immigrant groups—from Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean, and Africa—and give a sense of what everyday life is ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Re-thinking Assimilation and Integration

    Essays in Honour of Richard Alba

    Edited by Paul Statham, Nancy Foner ...
    Series series Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
    How does immigration transform societies and relations between ethnic and racial groups? This volume brings together scholars working at the cutting-edge of theory and empirical research on integration and assimilation in the US and Europe. It is dedicated to the life and works of Richard Alba, who has done so much to re-invigorate and establish ideas about integration and assimilation.The book ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • One Out of Three

    Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Nancy Foner ...
    This absorbing anthology features in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, revealing the surprising new realities of immigrant life in twenty-first-century New York City. Contributors show how nearly fifty years of massive inflows have transformed New York City's economic and cultural life and how the city has changed the lives of immigrant newcomers.Nancy Foner's introduction describes ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity

    Immigration and Belonging in North America and Western Europe

    Edited by Nancy Foner, Patrick Simon ...
    Fifty years of large-scale immigration has brought significant ethnic, racial, and religious diversity to North America and Western Europe, but has also prompted hostile backlashes. In Fear, Anxiety, and National Identity, a distinguished multidisciplinary group of scholars examine whether and how immigrants and their offspring have been included in the prevailing national identity in the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Strangers No More

    Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe

    by Richard Alba, Nancy Foner ...
    An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and CanadaStrangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries—France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands—and, across the Atlantic, in ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Super-Diversity in Everyday Life

    Edited by Jan Willem Duyvendak, Nancy Foner, Philip Kasinitz ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    Presenting several in-depth studies, this book explores how super-diversity operates in every-day relations and interactions in a variety of urban settings in Western Europe and the United States.The contributors raise a broad range of questions about the nature and effects of super-diversity. They ask if a quantitative increase in demographic diversity makes a qualitative difference in how ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD