Across Generations

Across Generationsoffers an excellent entry into family dynamics that include grandparents, parents, and children as well as a span of first-, second- and third-generation immigrants. - Mary Romero (Journal of American Ethnic History) This powerful volume brings together scholarship on immigrant parents and their children by some of the most original thinkers in the field. - Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo,author of God's Heart Has No Borders This timely and enlightening volume opens a window on immigrant families from a wide range of countries and cultures, and vividly explores the nature of relationships between parents and children growing up between two worlds. - G. Rumbaut,co-author of Immigrant America Throws a brilliant light on one of the most hidden aspects of the immigrant experiencenamely, the private but absolutely crucial relationships in the home between immigrant parents and their U.S.-reared children. - Richard Alba,co-editor of Immigration and Religion in America Across Generations is effective . . . in providing a new depth and dimension to immigrants. With a rare glimpse into immigrant family life, Across Generations captures the voices of people who are straddling two worlds and two generations. (The Indypendent)