Immigrant Life in the US - 9780415306003

Taylor & Francis

Contributors from the fields of sociology, anthropology, history and women's studies focus on the everyday social interactions that makeschools, workplaces and neighbourhoods sites of cultural creativity, transformation and resistance. > Immigrant Life in the U.S. brings together scholars from across the disciplines to examine diverse examples of immigration to the paradigmatic 'nation of immigrants'. The volume covers a wide range of time periods, ethnic and national groups, and places of immigration. Contemporary Chinese children brought to the U.S. through adoption, Mexican laborers hired to work in the mid-west in the 1930s, Indian computer programmers hired to work in California, and more, are examined in a series of chapters that show the great diversity of issues facing immigrants in the past and in the present.This book emphasizes the complex tapestry that is the everyday experience of life as an immigrant and turns a critical eye on the place of globalization in the every.