Author: John Amos BrownPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Voluntary Associations Among Ethnic Minority Groups in Detroit, Michigan
Author: John Amos BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Voluntary Associations Among Ethnic Minority Groups in Detroit, Michagan
Author: John Amos BrownEthnic/Immigrant Associations and Minorities'/Immigrants' Voluntary Participation
Author: Lili WangPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004361871
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Migration has changed the social, cultural, political, and economic landscape of many countries. Mutual aid organizations, ethic-oriented religious organizations, hometown associations, and various other types of ethnic and immigrant organizations emerged to respond to the particular needs of immigrant communities. For countries with a tradition of civic participation, integrating immigrants into civic life becomes an important issue. This article reviews the literature on ethnic/immigrant associations and minorities’ or immigrants’ voluntary participation in major developed countries that have experienced a significant increase of immigrants, particularly after the 1990s. In terms of ethnic/immigrant associations, the author reviews the historical background of research in this area, the size and scope, the formation and development, the memberships, and the financial well-being of these associations, the roles they play in helping immigrants acculturate into the host countries, and the classification of ethnic/immigrant associations. Particular attention is given to immigrants’ mutual aid organizations, ethnic cultural organizations, ethnic-oriented religious organizations, and hometown associations. The author also reviews the literature that examines the factors influencing minorities’ and immigrants’ voluntary participation, their formal and informal volunteering, as well we immigrant youth’s voluntary participation.
Cousins and Strangers
Author: Jose C. MoyaPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520215265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
"Moya commands not only the statistical sources but the literary and folklorical ones as well, weaving them in a history that is both analytical and narrative...A superb book that will be a standard monument, not only for Spanish migration and Argentine history, but for migration history in general." Walter Nugent, University of Notre Dame "A major achievement, it represents a vast, comprehensive research effort on two continents, using a world-wide background literature and a stunning array of research techniques, all well integrated, on a topic of large scope and significance. The entire enterprise is watched over by an acute, curious, lively mind in notable equilibrium and equanimity, bringing the research to life, fereting out the implications of widely scattered and apparently disparate facts, and reaching many new, significant, and well founded conclusions." James Lockhart, University of California, Los Angeles "By far the most original on its subject, this book will become a landmark study in Latin American history." David Rock, University of California, Santa Barbara "The scope and depth of Moya's research are impressive...His imaginative use of sources and evidence and lively, frequently entertaining prose make this a stimulating, satisfying, and ascinating study...This is scholarship that is meticulous, well-reasoned, and highly original." Ida Altman, University of New Orleans "One of the truly first-rate studies in the vast migration literature--an authentic tour-de-force." William Douglass, University of Nevada, Reno
The Community and the Social Worker
Author: Phillip FellinPublisher: Wadsworth
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Ethnicity, Conflict and Cooperation
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Cultural pluralism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Papers collected for the conference held in Detroit, Oct. 24-26, 1991.
Voluntary Associations; Perspectives on the Literature
Author: Constance E. SmithPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674943100
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This informative bibliographic study provides the most thorough survey available of the literature on voluntary associations. The authors first sketch major theories on the origin, growth, and functions of voluntary associations and discuss the place of associations in political theory, viewing especially the unproven assumption that voluntary associations are beneficial to a democratic society. They then survey the findings on the role of voluntary associations in the political and social structure (abroad as well as in the United States). The specific organizations themselves are covered and the final chapter views a recent development in the field--volunteers in government service, such as the Peace Corps. The final section of each chapter is an annotated bibliography of works cited in the text or related to its subject; over 600 items are listed.
Kinship, Ethnicity and Voluntary Associations
Author: William E. MitchellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351510010
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
How can Jewish relatives who range in residence and occupation from a Scarsdale doctor to a Brooklyn butcher, and who diverge in religiosity from an Orthodox cantor to a ham-eating atheist, maintain close family ties? It is a social truism that families with conflicting life styles scattered over a sprawling urban area fall apart. Even those families with a strong sense of duty to stay together begin to lose their cohesiveness as members' contacts become increasingly erratic and highly preferential. In "Kinship, Ethnicity and Voluntary Associations", William E. Mitchell describes how these intimate, spirited, and often contentious family clubs are organized and how they function.This project delves into family circles and clubs, two remarkable social innovations by New York City Jews of Eastern European background, that attempt to keep relatives together even as the indomitable forces of urbanization and industrialization continue to split them apart. The family circle first appeared on the New York City Jewish scene in the early 1900s as an adaptive response to preserve, both in principle and action, the social integrity of the immigrant Jewish family. It consisted of a group of relatives with common ancestors organized like a lodge or club with elected officers, dues, regular meetings, and committees.Family circles and cousins' clubs continued to exist as important variant types of family structure in New York Jewish communities for many years. Mitchell, in this work, deals with the challenging problems of how Jewish family clubs happened to emerge in American society and their theoretical implications for contemporary kinship studies. The research methods used in the study include a combination of intensive informant interviews, participant observation, and respondent questionnaires. This is an unusual, innovative contribution to cultural anthropology.
Group Workers at Work
Author: Paul H. GlasserPublisher: Government Institutes
ISBN: 9780865981607
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
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Directory of Voluntary Organizations in the Field of Aging
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
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Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description