Immigrant America A Portrait Author:Alejandro Portes, Rubén G. Rumbaut This revised, updated, and expanded fourth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides readers with a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States in a single volume. — Updated with the latest available data, Immigrant America explores the economic, political, spatial, and linguistic aspects of immigration; the rol... more »e of religion in the acculturation and social integration of foreign minorities; and the adaptation process for the second generation. This revised edition includes new chapters on theories of migration and on the history of U.S.-bound migration from the late nineteenth century to the present, offering an updated and expanded concluding chapter on immigration and public policy.« less