Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States
The View from Prince George's County, Maryland
By (author) Judith Noemà Freidenberg
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Publication date:
20 May 2016Length of book:
204 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksISBN-13: 9780739182635
Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland contextualizes the narratives of international migrants arriving to Prince George’s County, Maryland from 1968 to 2009. The life course trajectories of seventy individuals and their networks, organized chronologically to include life in the country of origin, the journey, and settlement in the county, frame migration as social issue rather than social problem. Having internalized the American dream, immigrants toil to achieve upward social mobility while constructing an immigrant space that nurtures well-being. This book demonstrates that an immigrant’s experience is grounded in personal, social, economic, and political spheres of influence, and reflects the complexity of migrants’ stories to help demystify homogenous categorization.
[The book is] an excellent introductory work to a different way of thinking about the problem of immigration in the United States for young people starting their higher education. In the
immediate future, they will face political decisions that depend on understanding immigration as a social issue. [translated from original Spanish]
immediate future, they will face political decisions that depend on understanding immigration as a social issue. [translated from original Spanish]