{"title":"Should immigrants assimilate","authors":"A. Portes, Min Zhou","doi":"10.4135/9781483328515.n24","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The process of assimilation among recent immigrants to the United States is examined. The authors conclude that in contrast to earlier U.S. immigrant experience second-generation non-white immigrants do not generally have the opportunity to gain access to middle-class white society and may remain in ethnically and culturally distinct minority communities. (ANNOTATION)","PeriodicalId":79750,"journal":{"name":"The Public interest","volume":"104 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"102","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Public interest","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483328515.n24","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The process of assimilation among recent immigrants to the United States is examined. The authors conclude that in contrast to earlier U.S. immigrant experience second-generation non-white immigrants do not generally have the opportunity to gain access to middle-class white society and may remain in ethnically and culturally distinct minority communities. (ANNOTATION)