@article{737678,
      recid = {737678},
      author = {Gjelten, Tom.},
      title = {A nation of nations : a great American immigration story  /},
      pages = {x, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      abstract = {"The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation  of America during the last fifty years, told through a  handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that  has been utterly changed by recent immigration. In the  fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act,  the foreign-born population of the United States has  tripled. Significantly, these immigrants are not coming  from Europe, as was the case before 1965, but from all  corners of the globe. Today non-European immigration is  ninety percent of the total immigration to the US.  Americans today are vastly more diverse than ever. They  look different, speak different languages, practice  different religions, eat different foods, and enjoy  different cultures. In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was  ninety percent white, ten percent African-American, with a  little more than one hundred families who were 'other.'  Currently the African-American percentage of the population  is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less  than fifty percent, and there are families of Asian,  African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living  all over the county. A Nation of Nations follows the lives  of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades  as they gradually 'Americanize.' Hailing from Korea,  Bolivia, and Libya, these families have stories that  illustrate common immigrant themes: friction between  minorities, economic competition and entrepreneurship, and  racial and cultural stereotyping. It's been half a century  since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act changed the  landscape of America, and no book has assessed the impact  or importance of this law as this one does, with its  brilliant combination of personal stories and larger  demographic and political issues"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/737678},
}