Daily Life of the New Americans: Immigration Since 1965

The foreign-born population in the United States, hailing from nations around the globe, increased from an estimated 9.7 million in 1960 to an estimated 35.2 million in 2005. A remarkable 12.1 percent of the U.S. population was born in a foreign country. What has it been like for these immigrants as they build new lives as Americans?

Daily Life of the New Americans: Immigration since 1965 provides a thematic overview of immigrants' everyday lives and underscores the diversity and complexity of the newcomer experience.

Organized into six thematic chapters, the book examines how immigrants from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe are changing the face of the United States, and, at the same time, are themselves being changed by living in United States. The stories told here are enhanced through the use of oral histories that bring immigrant experiences vividly to life.

Christoph Strobel teaches classes in world, non-Western, and Native American history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA.