Immigrant Life in the US - Multi-disciplinary Perspectives (Hardcover)

Contents:
1. American Identities in a Global Era Donna Gabaccia and Colin Wayne Leach
Part One: The Local and the Nation in a Transnational World
2. Elusive Citizenship: Education, the Press and the Struggle over Representtaion in Ninteeth-Century Napa, California 1848-1910 Linda Heidenreich
3. The Prehistory of the Cadenú: Class, Corruption, and Migration in Santo Domingo, 1965-1978 Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
4. Between Fantasy and Despair: the Transnational Condition and high-tech Immigration A. Aneesh
5. Asian-Latinos: Japanese-Peruvians' Ethnic Adaptation and Social Mobility in New York abd Los Angeles Ayumi Takenaka
Part Two: Family, School and Popular Culture
6. Adopted Children's Identities at the China/US Border Sara Dorow
7. Members of Many Gangs: Childhood and Ethno-racial Identity on the Streets of Twentieth Century America Mark Wild
8. 'Becoming' and 'Being' Chinese American in College: A Look at Ethnicity, Social Class, and Neighborhood in Identity Development Vivian Louie
Part 3: Immigrant Labour
9. Workplace Identities and Collective Memory: Living and Remembering teh Effects of the Bracero Total Institution Ronald L. Mize
10. The Significane of Race in the Urban Labour Market: A Study of Employers Nelson Lim
11. 'Natural Mothers' for Sale: The Construction of Latina Immigrant Identity in Domestic Service Labour Markets Kristen Hill Maher
12. The Work and the Wonder in Studying Immigrant Life Across the Disciplines: An Afterword Colin Wayne Leach and Donna R. Gabaccia