Immigrant America: A Portrait.
@article{MoleskyPoz1990ImmigrantAA, title={Immigrant America: A Portrait.}, author={Jean Molesky-Poz and A. Portes and R. Rumbaut}, journal={International Migration Review}, year={1990}, volume={25}, pages={630} }
This book, a study of the odysseys of millions of newcomers from all over the world to the United States, has itself been an odyssey. We began work on the first edition of Immigrant America, our portrait of a rapidly evolving and permanently unfinished reality, in the 1980s. Over the ensuing decades each new edition of this book has sought to depict and explain major changes in the size, composition and forms of U.S.-bound international migration flows, the immigrants' patterns of settlement… Expand
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