1st Edition

American Immigrant My Life in Three Languages

By Rosalie Porter Copyright 2009
488 Pages
by Routledge

488 Pages
by Routledge

Immigration is one of the most contentious issues in twenty-first-century America. In forty years, the American population has doubled from 150 to 300 million, about half of the increase due to immigration. Discussions involving legal and illegal status, assimilation or separatism, and language unity or multilingualism continue to spark debate. The battle to give five million immigrant children... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction, Prologue, Section I—Early Years, Early Struggles, Section II—Earning a Living, Getting a Life, Section III—Parallel Lives, Power Shifts, Section IV—Transformations, Resolutions, About the Author, Appendices, Endnotes

Biography

Rosalie Porter