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Book Synopsis The series is rounded off by this volume which focuses on "immigrant" policy, i.e., the ensemble of institutions, laws and social practices that are designed to facilitate the integration of immigrants and refugees into the receiving countries after they arrive. The chapters bring both theoretical and empirical analysis to bear on the processes of assimilation, migrants' development of transnational linkages, patterns of social and economic mobility in the immigrant and second generations, migrants' rights to public benefits and equal status, and the laws of citizenship in the two countries. The volume is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on the research of demographers, lawyers, and sociologists. It is also explicitly comparative,underscoring the similarities and differences in how the United States and Germany conceive of the role of immigrants in their societies and how the two nations incorporate them into civil and political society. Introductory and concluding chapters highlight the principal themes, findings, and policy implications of the volume.
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Table of Contents Introduction
Peter H. Schuck and Rainer Münz
Chapter 1. Assimilation, Exclusion, or Neither? Models of the Incorporation of Immigrants in the United States
Richard D. Alba
Chapter 2. Divergent Destinies: Immigration, the Second Generation, and the Rise of Transnational Communities
Alejandro Portes
Chapter 3. Governmental and Nongovernmental Roles in the Absorption of Immigrants in the United States
Nathan Glazer
Chapter 4. Social and Economic Integration of Foreigners in Germany
Wolfgang Seifert
Chapter 5. Ethnic Inequalities in the German School System
Richard D. Alba, Johann Handl, and Walter Müller
Chapter 6. Long-Distance Citizens: Ethnic Germans and Their Immigration to Germany
Rainer Münz and Rainer Ohliger
Chapter 7. The Treatment of Aliens in the United States
Peter H. Schuck
Chapter 8. Nationality Law in the United States and Germany: Structure and Current Problems
Gerald L. Neuman
Notes on Contributors
Index
