[Edling] Report: The Integration of Immigrants into American Society

[Ann Gavriel]

Thank you for this link, to this report.  Historians and jurisprudent or
fair-minded

humans keen to monitor such discourse in a critical manner will emphasize
that ALL 

the North American populace originated elsewhere - except of course the
indigenous

populace, what remains of it.  Integral to the concept of 'integration'
therefore, throughout 

United States of America history, has been the question:  'integrate to
whose, or

which culture?'.    Perhaps it is the culture of 'progress' per se, but let
us keep our

minds open to these 'sleight of hands' tricks of discourse.

 

Thank you again.

 

Ann Gavriel

 

 

 

 

 

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Sent: 11 December 2015 15:42
To: edling at bunner.geol.lu.se
Subject: [Edling] Report: The Integration of Immigrants into American
Society

 

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report

 

The Integration of Immigrants into American Society

 

The United States prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, and the
country has a long history of successfully absorbing people from across the
globe. The integration of immigrants and their children contributes to our
economic vitality and our vibrant and ever changing culture. We have offered
opportunities to immigrants and their children to better themselves and to
be fully incorporated into our society and in exchange immigrants have
become Americans - embracing an American identity and citizenship,
protecting our country through service in our military, fostering
technological innovation, harvesting its crops, and enriching everything
from the nation's cuisine to its universities, music, and art.

 

Today, the 41 million immigrants in the United States represent 13.1 percent
of the U.S. population. The U.S.-born children of immigrants, the second
generation, represent another 37.1 million people, or 12 percent of the
population. Thus, together the first and second generations account for one
out of four members of the U.S. population. Whether they are successfully
integrating is therefore a pressing and important question. Are new
immigrants and their children being well integrated into American society,
within and across generations? Do current policies and practices facilitate
their integration? How is American society being transformed by the millions
of immigrants who have arrived in recent decades?

 

To answer these questions, this new report from the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine summarizes what we know about how
immigrants and their descendants are integrating into American society in a
range of areas such as education, occupations, health, and language.

 

The report:
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21746/the-integration-of-immigrants-into-american
-society

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