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"For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United States. And still today, the dream or demand of a cultural "melting pot" circulates through academia, policy institutions, and mainstream media outlets. Noting society's many exclusions and erasures, scholars in the second half of the twentieth century persuasively argued that only some social groups assimilate. Others, they pointed out, are subject to racialization. In this bold, discipline-traversing cultural history, Catherine Ramírez develops an entirely different account of assimilation. Weaving together the legacies of US settler colonialism, slavery, and border control, Ramírez challenges the assumption that racialization and assimilation are separate and incompatible processes. In fascinating chapters with subjects that range from nineteenth century boarding schools to the contemporary artwork of undocumented immigrants, this book decouples immigration and assimilation and probes the gap between assimilation and citizenship. It shows that assimilation is not just a process of absorption and becoming more alike. Rather, assimilation is a process of racialization and subordination and of power and inequality"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- 1 The Revival of Assimilation in Historical Perspective -- II. The Classical Formulation -- 2 Racial Assimilation in Secondary Groups with Particular Reference to the Negro -- 3 The American Ethnic Group -- 4 Assimilation into the Larger Society -- 5 American Immigrant Groups: Ethnic Identification and the Problem of Generations -- 6 The Nature of Assimilation -- III. Assimilation Revisited -- 7 Is Assimilation Dead? -- 8 In Defense of the Assimilation Model -- 9 Toward a Reconciliation of "Assimilation" and "Pluralism": The Interplay of Acculturation and Ethnic Retention -- 10 The Melting and the Pot: Assimilation and Variety in American Life -- 11 Assimilation and Dissimilation -- 12 Race, Religion, and Nationality in American Society: A Model of Ethnicity-From Contact to Assimilation -- IV. New Directions -- 13 The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and Its Variants -- 14 Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration -- 15 Migration and Community Formation under Conditions of Globalization -- 16 Social Spaces, Transnational Immigrant Communities, and the Politics of Incorporation -- 17 Theorizing the "Modes of Incorporation": Assimilation, Hyphenization, and Multiculturalism as Varieties of Civic Participation -- Index -- About the Editor.

Ist Assimilation ein »Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit« (Erdogan) oder droht sich Deutschland ohne sie abzuschaffen (Sarrazin)? Den hitzigen Debatten über Assimilation, Integration und Diversität liegt die Frage zugrunde, ob politische, soziale und kulturelle Integration auf kultureller Einheit oder auf Pluralität begründet werden kann und sollte. Der Band stellt diese Konzepte nach neuestem Forschungsstand vor. Analysen zu verschiedenen Schauplätzen der Debatte - von der Deutschen Islamkonferenz über Verhandlungen von Assimilation und Diversität in Literatur und Film bis zum Terrorismus in England - und historische Perspektiven zeigen, wie die Integrationsfrage die Selbstdefinition moderner Gesellschaften in ihrem Kern trifft. Rezension »Der Sammeland [liefert] rund um den Integrationsdiskurs wertvolle Denkanstöße [und] bietet einen fundierten Überblick.« Nadine Pippel, KULT_online, 38 (2014) »Deutschland gewinnt mit der zunehmenden Globalisierung, aber auch mit den differenzierter werdenden Migrationsprozessen komplexere Integrationsphänomene. Daher muss Migrationsforschung sich wandelnden Forschungsthemen konzeptionell und methodisch gerecht werden. Mit diesem Buch ist dafür ein wichtiger Schritt gemacht worden.« Yalcin Yildiz, www.socialnet.de, 12.03.2014 »Die sehr unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und Untersuchungsfelder machen den Sammelband zu einer empfehlenswerten Lektüre insbesondere für all jene, die sich über die eigene Disziplin hinaus mit den facettenreichen Debatten um Integration beschäftigen.« Christiane Bausch, Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 12.03.2014 Besprochen in: BZgA-InfoDienst Migration, 1 (2014) Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, 144/1 (2014), Franz Kröger.

Examines assimilation of immigrants in Austrian society; includes special reference to Jewish minority.

Jutta Aumüller zeichnet die theoretischen Konzepte der Assimilation in einer geschichtlichen Perspektive nach und kontrastiert sie mit den politischen Diskursen um Integration und Assimilation von zugewanderten Minderheiten seit der Nationalstaatsbewegungim 19. Jahrhundert.(Quelle: Verlag / Internet).

Examines assimilation problems of citizens from the former East Germany in a market-oriented society.

"Industrialization and Assimilation is among the first books to focus on the process of ethnic identity change in a broad context. Green's evidence causally explains how and why ethnicity changes across time, showing that, by altering the basis of economic production from land to labor and removing people from the "idiocy of rural life," industrialization is a powerful agent for making societies more ethnically homogenous. More specifically, the author argues that industrialization lowers the relative value of rural land, leading people to identify less with narrow rural identities in favor of broader identities that can aid them navigate the formal urban economy. Using case studies ranging from mid-20th century Turkey to contemporary Botswana, Somalia, and Uganda, as well as examples of Native Americans in the United States and the Māori in New Zealand, both quantitative and qualitative methods are used to establish the relationship between industrialization and ethnic homogenization"--