Richard D. Alba Libri

This book examines contemporary attitudes towards ethnic minorities in Germany. These minorities include some of immigrant origin, such as Italians, Turks, and asylum seekers, and the principal non-immigrant minority, Jews. While the findings demonstrate that intense prejudice against minorities is not widespread among Germans, many of whom in fact can be considered immigrant- and minority-friendly, a crystallization of attitudes is also evident: that is, attitudes towards immigrants are strongly correlated with anti-Semitism and with other worldview dimensions, such as positioning in the left-right political spectrum. In this sense, the fundamental question of whether immigrants and other minorities should be regarded as fellow citizens or ethnic outsiders remains relevant in the German context.

A book that examines the growing population of mixed minority-white backgrounds and society--

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 Atlantic, in the United States and Canada. This sy

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distance separating immigrants and their children from the mainstream of American society closes over time--seems outdated and, in some forms, even offensive.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 systematic treatment of assimilation since the mid-1960s, it continues to shape the immigrant experience, even though the geography of immigration has shifted from Europe to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Institutional changes, from civil rights legislation to immigration law, have provided a more favorable environment for nonwhite immigrants and their children than in the past.Assimilation is still driven, in claim, by the decisions of immigrants and the second generation to improve their social and material circumstances in America. But they also show that immigrants, historically and today, have profoundly changed our mainstream society and culture in the process of becoming Americans.Surveying a variety of domains--language, socioeconomic attachments, residential patterns, and intermarriage--they demonstrate the continuing importance of assimilation in American life. And they predict that it will blur the boundaries among the major, racially defined populations, as nonwhites and Hispanics are increasingly incorporated into the mainstream.

Der fünfte Band der Reihe 'Blickpunkt Gesellschaft' widmet sich dem Thema 'Ethnische Gruppen in Deutschland'. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Ergebnisse der Allgemeinen Bevölkerungsumfrage der Sozialwissenschaften (ALLBUS) zur Verbreitung und Erklärung ausländerfeindlicher und antisemitischer Einstellungen in der deutschen Bevölkerung. Aber die in Deutschland lebenden Ausländer sind nicht nur als Einstellungsobjekte Gegenstand dieses Buches. Vielmehr werden verschiedene Datenquellen (u.a. das Sozioökonomische Panel und die Ausländerbefragungen des Instituts MARPLAN) intensiv genutzt, um den Leser auch über die soziale Struktur von Deutschlands Zuwanderern, über ihre Lebenssituation und -perspektive sowie über ihre Sicht des Verhältnisses zwischen Deutschen und Ausländern zu informieren.