1st Edition
Re-thinking Assimilation and Integration Essays in Honour of Richard Alba
Introduction: Assimilation and integration in the twenty-first century: where have we been and where are we going?
Paul Statham and Nancy Foner
1. Culture’s role in assimilation and integration: the expansion and growing diversity of U.S. popular culture
Richard Alba
2. ‘People of Color’ as a category and identity in the United States
Paul Starr and Edward P. Freeland
3. The Asian American assimilation paradox
Jennifer Lee and Dian Sheng
4. Becoming white or becoming mainstream? Defining the endpoint of assimilation
Philip Kasinitz and Mary C. Waters
5. Immigration and the transformation of American society: politics, the economy, and popular culture
Nancy Foner
6. Cultural adaptation and demographic change: evidence from Mexican-American naming patterns after the California Gold Rush
Nan Zhang and Maria Abascal
7. Outgroup mobility threat – how much intergenerational integration is wanted?
Frank Kalter and Naika Foroutan
8. Immigration theory between assimilation and discrimination
Mirna Safi
9. Challenging the Muslimification of Muslims in research on ‘liberal democratic values’: why culture matters beyond religion
Paul Statham
10. Relational integration: from integrating migrants to integrating social relations
Lea Klarenbeek
11. Integration into diversity theory renewing – once again – assimilation theory
Maurice Crul
12. Re-thinking assimilation and why it matters: an intellectual, career and life journey – Richard Alba in conversation with Paul Statham
Richard Alba, Paul Statham and Nancy Foner
Biography
Paul Statham is Professor of Migration and Director of Sussex Centre for Migration Research, a Centre of Excellence at the University of Sussex. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Paul is a political sociologist. He has written several collaborative books, including Contested Citizenship: immigration and cultural diversity in Europe (2005), edited volumes, and more than 80 articles in refereed journals. His current research interests are integration and assimilation perspectives; Islam and Muslim minorities in Europe; and mobilities and migration between Europe and Thailand.
Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her many books on immigration include From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration (2000), Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe (co-authored with Richard Alba, 2015), and most recently, One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America (2022).
