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Immigrant America : A Portrait
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Immigrant America : A Portrait Paperback - 1997 - 2nd Edition

by Rumbaut, Rubén G., Portes, Alejandro

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  • Title Immigrant America : A Portrait
  • Author Rumbaut, Rubén G., Portes, Alejandro
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 421
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date January 8, 1997
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 10130550-6
  • ISBN 9780520207653 / 0520207653
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.08 x 1.08 in (23.01 x 15.44 x 2.74 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Emigration and immigration -, Immigrants - United States - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96016209
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.873

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Alejandro Portes is John Dewey Professor of Sociology and International Relations at Johns Hopkins University and coauthor of Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States (University of California Press, 1985) and Labor, Class and the International System (1981). He is the 2010 recipient of the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association. Ruben G. Rumbaut is Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University and author of The Agony of Exile (1990), The Structure of Refuge (1989), and other studies of the adaptation of refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.