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Irene Bloemraad. Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-MAR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Irene Bloemraad. Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Irene Bloemraad. Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 369 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $60.00 hc; $23.95 sc.

In Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada, Irene Bloemraad focuses on the roles governments have in encouraging immigrants to achieve full citizenship. Through an in-depth cross-national comparison of immigration policies and ideologies in the United States and Canada, Bloemraad carefully illustrates that political incorporation of immigrants is not based only on the immigrants' characteristics themselves, but also on the reception their newly adopted countries give them. Based on historical data and statistical surveys on immigration and detailed interviews with Portuguese and Vietnamese immigrants and refugees in Toronto...

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