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Hardcover:
9780520286061 | Univ of California Pr, July 7, 2015, cover price $70.00
9780533132027, titled "Snow Black: She's All That!" | Vantage Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $13.95 | also contains Snow Black: She''s All That! | About this edition: Snow Black, She's All That!
Paperback:
9780520286078 | Univ of California Pr, July 7, 2015, cover price $29.95
9780533132058, titled "When Yes Won't Do" | Vantage Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $10.95 | also contains When Yes Won''t Do
Hardcover:
9780415745154 | Routledge, May 16, 2014, cover price $160.00
Product Description: Not since the era of Ellis Island have so many immigrants arrived on Americaâs shores. As in the past, native-born Americans continue to expect immigrants to assimilate; however, in an era of cheap international travel and the Internet, immigrants themselves are now able to keep one foot in their countries of origin, thereby confusing old assumptions about pluralism and American identity...read more
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9781595581693 | New Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Documents the immigrant experience in today's America, evaluating the myriad ways in which modern immigrants are transforming religion throughout the country and elsewhere, in an account that also considers the role of communications technology and international travel.
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9781595584564 | New Pr, March 17, 2009, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Not since the era of Ellis Island have so many immigrants arrived on Americaâs shores.
Product Description: In recent years, 'transnationalism' has become a key analytical concept across the social sciences. While theoretical approaches to the study of global social phenomena have traditionally focused on the nation-state as the central defining framework, transnational studies views social experience as a complex and dynamic product of multiple regional, ethnic, and institutional identities...read more
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9780415953726 | 1 edition (Routledge, November 27, 2007), cover price $160.00 | About this edition: In recent years, 'transnationalism' has become a key analytical concept across the social sciences.
Product Description: The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population under eighteen years old―one out of every five children in the United States. Will this generation of immigrant children follow the path of earlier waves of immigrants and gradually assimilate into mainstream American life, or does the global nature of the contemporary world mean that the trajectory of today's immigrants will be fundamentally different? Rather than severing their ties to their home countries, many immigrants today sustain economic, political, and religious ties to their homelands, even as they work, vote, and pray in the countries that receive them...read more
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9780871545176 | Russell Sage Foundation, December 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.
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9780871545169 | Russell Sage Foundation, August 17, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.
Contrary to popular opinion, increasing numbers of migrants continue to participate in the political, social, and economic lives of their countries of origin even as they put down roots in the United States. The Transnational Villagers offers a detailed, compelling account of how ordinary people keep their feet in two worlds and create communities that span borders. Peggy Levitt explores the powerful familial, religious, and political connections that arise between Miraflores, a town in the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood in Boston and examines the ways in which these ties transform life in both the home and host country.The Transnational Villagers is one of only a few books based on in-depth fieldwork in the countries of origin and reception. It provides a moving, detailed account of how transnational migration transforms family and work life, challenges migrants' ideas about race and gender, and alters life for those who stay behind as much, if not more, than for those who migrate. It calls into question conventional thinking about immigration by showing that assimilation and transnational lifestyles are not incompatible. In fact, in this era of increasing economic and political globalization, living transnationally may become the rule rather than the exception.
Hardcover:
9780520228115 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $85.00
Paperback:
9780520228139 | Univ of California Pr, July 1, 2001, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Contrary to popular opinion, increasing numbers of migrants continue to participate in the political, social, and economic lives of their countries of origin even as they put down roots in the United States.
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