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Nancy Foner

CUNY
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Relations between the generations in immigrant families

N Foner, J Dreby - Annual review of sociology, 2011 - annualreviews.org
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the nature of intergenerational relationships
in immigrant families, especially between immigrant parents and their children, many of …

Immigrant religion in the US and Western Europe: Bridge or barrier to inclusion?

N Foner, R Alba - International migration review, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This article analyzes why immigrant religion is viewed as a problematic area in Western
Europe in contrast to the United States, where it is seen as facilitating the adaptation process. …

[BOOK][B] Strangers no more: Immigration and the challenges of integration in North America and Western Europe

R Alba, N Foner - 2015 - degruyter.com
… Richard Alba and Nancy Foner shed new light on questions at the heart of concerns about
immigration. They analyze why immigrant religion is a more significant divide in Western …

[BOOK][B] From Ellis Island to JFK: New Yorks two great waves of immigration

N Foner - 2008 - books.google.com
… A key contribution of this book is Nancy Foner’s reassessment of the myths that have grown
up around the earlier Jewish and Italian immigration—and that deeply color how today’s …

[BOOK][B] In a new land: A comparative view of immigration

N Foner - 2005 - books.google.com
… Leading immigration studies scholar, Nancy Foner, answers … Foner looks at immigration
across nation-states, and over … significantly shaped New York City, Foner compares today’s Latin …

What's new about transnationalism? New York immigrants today and at the turn of the century

N Foner - Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 1997 - utpjournals.press
Transnationalism is not new. even though it often seems as if it were invented yesterday.
Contemporary immigrant New Yorkers are not the first newcomers to live what scholars now …

[BOOK][B] Ages in conflict: A cross-cultural perspective on inequality between old and young

N Foner - 1984 - degruyter.com
This is a book about conflict and tension. It deals with strains that are generated by age
inequalities in nonindustrial societies throughout the world. The key actors are old people. And …

The Immigrant Family: Cultural Legacies and Cultural Changes1

N Foner - The New Immigrant and the American Family, 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This article examines the way family and kinship patterns change in the process of immigration
– and why. Offering an interpretative synthesis, it emphasizes the way first generation …

[BOOK][B] New Immigrants in New York

N Foner - 2001 - degruyter.com
… Edited by Nancy Foner … New immigrants in New York/edited by Nancy Foner
Completely revised and updated edition, p. cm. … 1 Introduction: New Immigrants in a New …

[BOOK][B] The caregiving dilemma: Work in an American nursing home

N Foner - 1994 - books.google.com
Along with increasing life expectancy comes the knowledge that many Americans will one
day enter nursing homes. Who are the people who will care for us or for our relatives? Nancy