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Title:

Across generations : immigrant families in America / edited by Nancy Foner.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

vii, 235 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Families--United States.
Immigrant families--United States--Social conditions.
United States--Emigration and immigration.

Other Authors:

Foner, Nancy, 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Negotiating work and parenting over the life course : Mexican family dynamics in a binational context / Joanna Dreby. Conflict, coping, and reconciliation : intergenerational relations in Chinese immigrant families / Min Zhou -- Emotions, sex, and money : the lives of Filipino children of immigrants / Yen Le Espiritu -- Spare the rod, ruin the child? : first- and second- generation West Indian child-rearing practices / Mary C. Waters and Jennifer E. Sykes -- Marry into a good family : transnational reproduction and intergenerational relations in Bangladeshi American families / Nazli Kibria -- Images of a wounded homeland : Sierra Leonean children and the new heart of darkness / JoAnn D'Alisera -- Caregiving across generations : aging, state assistance, and multigenerational ties among immigrants from the Dominican Republic / Greta Gilbertson -- Parents and children across borders : legal instability and intergenerational relations in Guatemalan and Salvadoran families / Cecilia Menjívar and Leisy Abrego -- Negotiating work and parenting over the life course : Mexican family dynamics in a binational context / Joanna Dreby.

ISBN:

0814727719 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814727713 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0814727700 (alk. paper)
9780814727706 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)276816839

LCCN:

2008050313

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)