Richard Daniel Alba

Right vs. Privilege: The Open Admissions Experiment at the City University of New York

Ethnic Identity : The Transformation of White America

Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America

Italian Americans: Into the Twilight of Ethnicity

Remaking The American Mainstream: Assimilation And Contemporary Immigration

Daedalus 142:3 (Summer 2013) - Immigration and the Future of America

Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Summer 2013 issue is ...

The Next Generation: Immigrant Youth in a Comparative Perspective

One fifth of the population of the United States belongs to the immigrant or second generations. While the US is generally thought of as the immigrant society par excellence, it now has a number of rivals in Europe. The Next Generation brings together studies from top immigration scholars to explore...

Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives

Religion has played a crucial role in American immigration history as an institutional resource for migrants' social adaptation, as a map of meaning for interpreting immigration experiences, and as a continuous force for expanding the national ideal of pluralism. To explain these processes the edito...

The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe (Social Science Research Council)

The Children of Immigrants at School explores the 21st-century consequences of immigration through an examination of how the so-called second generation is faring educationally in six countries: France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United States. In this insightful volume, R...

Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration

In this age of multicultural democracy, the idea of assimilation--that the social distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive. But as Richard Alba and Victor Nee show in the first system...

Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America (The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)

Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. During the mid-twentieth century, the dominant position of the United States in the postwar world economy led to a rapid expansion of educ...

Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe

Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries--France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands--and, across the ...