Author: Robert Llewellyn Tyler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 166696221X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
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Through a consideration of settlement patterns, economic activity, language use, and cultural and religious institutions, The Welsh in Metro America: Respectability and Assimilation in San Francisco, Seattle, Columbus, and Milwaukee, 1870–1930 provides a micro study of four Welsh immigrant communities in urban America. This book endeavors to understand the strength and long-term viability of these communities and the ways in which they changed by analyzing the forces that enabled Welsh immigrants and their children to so rapidly become Welsh Americans and, ultimately, to almost seamlessly enter the mainstream world of white, English-speaking, Protestant America.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428920420
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Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Author: John W. Leonard
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2504
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Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
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Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Author: Public Affairs Information Service
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 2376
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Author: Jacob L. Vigdor
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144220138X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Immigration has always caused immense public concern, especially when the perception is that immigrants are not assimilating into society they way they should, or perhaps the way they once did. Americans are frustrated as they try to order food, hire laborers, or simply talk to someone they see on the street and cannot communicate with them because the person is an immigrant who has not fully adopted American culture or language. But is this truly a modern phenomenon? In From Immigrants to Americans, Jacob Vigdor offers a direct comparison of the experiences of immigrants in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present day. His conclusions are both unexpected and fascinating. Vigdor shows how the varying economic situations immigrants come from has always played an important role in their assimilation. The English language skills of contemporary immigrants are actually quite good compared to the historical average, but those who arrive without knowing English are learning at slower rates. He continues to argue that todayOs immigrants face far fewer OincentivesO to assimilate and offers a set of assimilation friendly policies. From Immigrants to Americans is an important book for anyone interested in immigration, either the history or the modern implications, or who want to understand why todayOs immigrants seem so different from previous generations of immigrants and how much they are the same. Co-published with the Manhattan Institute
