Alejandro Portes
Список книг автора Alejandro PortesThe Global Edge
Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. <I>The Global Edge</I> charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to the highly successful <I>City on the Edge, The Global Edge</I> examines Miami in the context of globalization and scrutinizes its newfound place as a major international city. Written by two well-known scholars in the field, the book examines Miami’s rise as a finance and banking center and the simultaneous emergence of a highly diverse but contentious ethnic mosaic. <I>The Global Edge </I>serves as a case study of Miami’s present cultural, economic, and political transformation, and describes how its future course can provide key lessons for other metropolitan areas throughout the world. 
Spanish Legacies
Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country’s population is foreign-born.<I> Spanish Legacies</I>, written by internationally known experts on immigration, explores how the children of immigrants—the second generation—are coping with the challenges of adaptation to Spanish society, comparing their experiences with those of their peers in the United States.<BR /><BR /> Using a rich data set based on both survey and ethnographic material, <I>Spanish Legacies</I> describes the experiences of growing up by the large population of second-generation youths in Spain and the principal outcomes of the process—from national self-identification and experiences of discrimination to educational attainment and labor-market entry. The study is based on a sample of almost 7,000 second-generation students who were interviewed in Madrid and Barcelona in 2008 and then followed and re-interviewed four years later. A survey of immigrant parents, a replacement sample for lost respondents in the second survey, and a survey of native-parentage students complement this rich data set. Outcomes of the adaptation process in Spain are systematically presented in five chapters, introduced by real-life histories of selected respondents drawn by the study’s ethnographic module. Systematic comparisons with results from the United States show a number of surprising similarities in the adaptation of children of immigrants in both countries, as well as differences marked by contrasting experiences of discrimination, self-identities, and ambition.<BR /><BR /><BR /><BR /> 
Immigrant America
This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of <I>Immigrant America: A Portrait</I> provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume.<BR /><BR /> Updated with the latest available data, <I>Immigrant America</I> explores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the role of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation. This revised edition includes new chapters on theories of migration and on the history of U.S.-bound migration from the late nineteenth century to the present, offering an updated and expanded concluding chapter on immigration and public policy.
