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Beyond the Immigrant Enclave: Network Change and Assimilation

Book by Susan Wierzbicki; LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2004

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Acculturation--United States, Assimilation (Sociology), Community Life--United States, Immigrants--United States--Social Conditions, Minorities--United States--Social Conditions, Social Networks--United States, United States--Ethnic Relations, United States--Social Conditions--1980-

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...instead of homogeneous units. Assimilation then involves a change in the...new structural conceptions of assimilation extend Gordons (1964) framework...distinguishes seven dimensions of assimilation in a way that lent the previously...
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Ethnic Groups and Marital Choices: Ethnic History and Marital Assimilation in Canada, 1871 and 1971

Book by Madeline A. Richard; University of British Columbia Press, 1991

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Assimilation (Sociology), Intermarriage--Canada, Minorities--Canada

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...attribute a relatively higher degree of assimilation to an immigrant who marries a spouse...an especially important indicator of assimilation since Drachslers study 1920 . Drachsler...therefore, an index of the process of assimilation 1939:792 , and for Hurd intermarriage...
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Life Lines: Community, Family, and Assimilation among Asian Indian Immigrants

Book by Jean Bacon; Oxford University Press, 1996

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Chicago (Ill.)--Social Conditions, East Indian Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Cultural Assimilation, East Indian Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Ethnic Identity

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Foreword: Ethnic Assimilation as Social Differentiation and Americanization...not always clear, however, what assimilation means. Historically the word has...Robert E. Park, "Racial Assimilation in Secondary Groups." Robert...
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Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History: The Roles and Representation of Women

Book by Paula E. Hyman; University of Washington Press, 1995

Subjects:

Europe--Ethnic Relations, Jewish Women--Europe--Social Conditions, Jewish Women--United States--Social Conditions, Jews--Cultural Assimilation--Europe, Jews--Cultural Assimilation--United States, United States--Ethnic Relations

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

gender can reshape our understanding of both assimilation in modern Jewish history and the meanings that Jews have attached to assimilation. To assess assimilation and its impact upon modern Jewry in Europe and America, we...
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Taking Assimilation to Heart: Marriages of White Women and Indigenous Men in the United States and Australia, 1887-1937

Book by Katherine Ellinghaus; University of Nebraska Press, 2006

Subjects:

Australian Aborigines--Cultural Assimilation--History--19th Century, Australian Aborigines--Social Conditions--19th Century, Indians Of North America--Cultural Assimilation--History--19th Century, Indians Of North America--Education--Social Aspects, Indians Of North America--Social Conditions--19th Century, Interracial Marriage--Australia--History--19th Century, Interracial Marriage--United States--History--19th Century, White Women--Australia--Family Relationships--History--19th Century, White Women--United States--Family Relationships--History--19th Century

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...of my American chapters. This aspect of assimilation was missing from Aus- tralian policies until...predominant focus in the United States on cultural assimilation created a system of assimilation that allowed some Native Americans to obtain...

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Journal Articles on: assimilation

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Measures of Assimilation in the Marriage Market: Mexican Americans 1970-1990

Journal article by Michael J. Rosenfeld; Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 64, 2002

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Assimilation, Hispanic Americans, Marriage

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Measures of Assimilation in the Marriage Market: Mexican...the sociological understanding of assimilation. Theorists such as Davis (1941...groups. In Gordons (1964) classic Assimilation in American Life, he argued that...
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Assimilationists Contest Assimilation: T G H Strehlow and A P Elkin on Aboriginal Policy (1)

Journal article by Russell Mcgregor; Journal of Australian Studies, 2002

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Acculturation--Political aspects, Assimilation (Sociology), Australia--History, Australian aborigines--Social aspects, Elkin, A.P.--Attitudes, Hasluck, Paul--Political aspects, Strehlow, T.G.H.--Attitudes

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Assimilationists contest assimilation: T G H Strehlow and A P Elkin...that assimilationists contested assimilation might, at first glance, seem...procedure. Did contention over assimilation, however, extend beyond mere...
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White Australia, Settler Nationalism and Aboriginal Assimilation *

Journal article by Anthony Moran; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 51, 2005

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Acculturation--Analysis, Assimilation (Sociology)--Analysis, Assimilation--Analysis, Australia--Domestic policy, Indigenous peoples-government relations--History, Indigenous peoples-government relations--Management

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...the policies of assimilation that dominated a large...rehabilitation" of assimilation has led to a renewal...what she calls the "assimilation studies field...works highlighting assimilations shifting and multiple...
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Segmented Assimilation Theory and the Life Model: An Integrated Approach to Understanding Immigrants and Their Children

Journal article by Lissette M. Piedra, David W. Engstrom; Social Work, Vol. 54, 2009

Subjects:

Acculturation--Analysis, Assimilation (Sociology)--Analysis, Domestic relations--Analysis, Family relations--Analysis, Immigrant life--Analysis, Immigrant life--Models, Social workers--Practice

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Segmented Assimilation Theory and the Life Model: An Integrated...opportunity for advancement. Segmented assimilation theory identifies factors that contribute...1993; Waters, 1996). Segmented assimilation theory has been used by scholars...
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Assimilation, Sexuality and the Contours of Relational Care in Academe

Journal article by Shiv Ganesh; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 31, 2008

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Acculturation--Analysis, Assimilation (Sociology)--Analysis, College faculty--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, College faculty--Social aspects, College teachers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, College teachers--Social aspects, Interpersonal relations--Analysis, Sexual minorities--Social aspects

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Assimilation, Sexuality and the Contours of Relational...educational moment. Reflections on Assimilation As I have narrated above, our move...could well be understood in terms of assimilation. Much has been written about assimilation...

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Magazine Articles on: assimilation

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Assimilation and Its Discontents

Magazine article by Vincent J. Cannato; Public Interest, Winter 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration--Book reviews

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Assimilation and Its Discontents. by Vincent J...multiculturalists deem the traditional idea of assimilation racist, oppressive, insensitive...Harvard students for their impressions of assimilation, "the large majority had a negative...
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Assimilation's Quiet Tide

Magazine article by Richard D. Alba; Public Interest, Spring 1995

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Assimilation (Sociology)--Analysis, Immigrants--Social aspects

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Assimilations quiet tide. by Richard D. Alba Assimilation has become Americas...multiculturalism. At best, assimilation is considered of dubious...remains to be seen. Assimilations continuing relevance The assimilation trends tracked by...
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Does America Have an Assimilation Problem?

Magazine article by Michael Barone, John Fonte; The American Enterprise, Vol. 11, December 2000

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Africans--Emigration and immigration, Assimilation (Sociology)--United States, Blacks--Social aspects, Emigration and immigration--United States, Irish--Emigration and immigration, Italians--Emigration and immigration, Latin Americans--Emigration and immigration, United States--Social policy

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Does America Have An Assimilation Problem? by Michael Barone , John...become an obstacle to Hispanic assimilation. A more important barrier is the...intermarriage and low childbearing rates. Assimilation is a reality. Asian immigration...
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Assimilation Enriches America's Melting Pot

Magazine article by John J. Miller; Insight on the News, Vol. 10, October 3, 1994

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Assimilation (Sociology)--Analysis, Emigration and immigration--Interpretation and construction, Immigrants--Social aspects

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Assimilation enriches Americas melting pot. by...retard many immigrant gains -- but assimilation continues to glide over all of those...limited usefulness in thinking about assimilation. Although the raw number of immigrants...
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The Imperative and Peril of Assimilation

Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2001

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Assimilation (Sociology)--Religious aspects, Catholics--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

THE IMPERATIVE AND PERIL OF ASSIMILATION. Philip Gleason, that distinguished...but Gleason contends that "assimilation" is the more straightforward...Catholicism now? Gleason writes: Assimilation became a more serious problem...

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Newspaper Articles on: assimilation

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Assimilation American Style; Melting Pot Becomes Multicultural Fishbowl

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 1, 2005

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Acculturation, Assimilation, Assimilation (Sociology), Hispanic Americans

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Assimilation American Style; Melting Pot Becomes...We had to do the work ourselves." Assimilation, American style. We decry the meltdown...the bottom up. In his 1977 book, "Assimilation American Style," Peter Salins describes...
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Bush Task Force to Assist Aliens; Assimilation Effort Key to Citizenship Campaign

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 8, 2006

Subjects:

Acculturation, Assimilation (Sociology), Illegal immigrants

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Bush Task Force to Assist Aliens; Assimilation Effort Key to Citizenship Campaign. Byline: Stephen Dinan...citizenship. He said the government must take an active role in assimilation, a move he called critical both for the nation and for those...
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Assimilation Unifies a Diverse People: Author Decries Groups' Growing 'Ethnocentricity'

Newspaper article by Caroline Modorato-Rosta; The Washington Times, April 3, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Assimilation unifies a diverse people: Author decries...Americans feel no need to appreciate assimilation as the best way to unite the countrys...Salins, author of the new book "Assimilation, American Style" and a child of German...
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Immigration Was Assimilation

Newspaper article by Suzanne Fields; The Washington Times, March 20, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Immigration was assimilation by Suzanne Fields Jack Kemp thinks...ideal. Peter Salins, author of "Assimilation American Style," is more optimistic...fervent call for the revival of assimilation as the guiding light of American...
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Legacy of the Jewish Mother; Immigrant Ethos and the Comedies of Assimilation

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 23, 2009

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Immigrants

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Mother; Immigrant Ethos and the Comedies of Assimilation. Byline: Suzanne Fields, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON...Before there was multiculturalism, there was assimilation. Before assimilation, there was ethnic pride. Before ethnic pride...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: assimilation

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Digestive System

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...kingdom, a group of organs functioning in digestion and assimilation of food and elimination of wastes. Virtually all animals...the anus, through which the swallowing, digestion, and assimilation of food and the elimination of waste products are accomplished...
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Wales

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Tudor , a Welshman. Tudor policy toward Wales was one of assimilation on a basis of equality. Welsh lands, including the marches...supplementary legislation completed the process of administrative assimilation by abolishing all Welsh customary law at variance with the...
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Indian Art and Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...cent. A growing nationalist sentiment pervaded Indian art in the early decades of the 20th cent. along with the conscious assimilation of Western styles. Major modern artists include Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher Gil, N...
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Roman Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (Rome). From the time of Caracalla to the death of Constantine I (211 337) the rapid assimilation of Eastern influences encouraged a tendency toward abstraction that later developed into the stiff iconographic forms of...
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Normandy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Normandy in the 16th cent., and there were bitter battles between Catholics and Huguenots . Louis XIV sought to complete the assimilation of Normandy into France, and in 1654 the provincial estates were suppressed. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685...

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