The Next Generation Emerges
New York has long been known as a city of immigrants. With more than a third of its population and almost half of its adult population foreign-born, scarcely an area of contemporary New York life has not been reshaped by the resumption of mass immigration since the mid-1960s. And yet, when we think...
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Zusammenfassung: | New York has long been known as a city of immigrants. With more than a third of its population and almost half of its adult population foreign-born, scarcely an area of contemporary New York life has not been reshaped by the resumption of mass immigration since the mid-1960s. And yet, when we think of how immigration is transforming the city’s economic, cultural, and political life, we are reminded that we can see the importance of immigration not only in the lives of the immigrants themselves but also in those of their American-born children, the “second generation.” When we ask what |
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