Based on a conference on "A Nation of Immigrants: Ethnic Identity and Political Incorporation" held in May 2003 in Berkeley, Calif.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and index.

Introduction / Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ram�irez -- Immigrants and the changing categories of race / Kenneth Prewitt -- Mobilizing group consciousness : when does ethnicity have political consequences? / Jane Junn -- Rethinking citizenship : noncitizen voting and immigrant political engagement in the United States / Lisa Garc�ia Bedolla -- Jus meritum : citizenship for service / Cara Wong and Grace Cho -- The impact of dual nationality on political participation / Bruce Cain and Brendan Doherty -- Transnational politics and civic engagement : do home-country political ties limit Latino immigrant pursuit of U.S. civic engagement and citizenship? / Louis DeSipio -- Out of line : immigration and party identification among Latinos and Asian Americans / Zoltan Hajnal and Taeku Lee -- Nonpartisan Latino and Asian American contactability and voter mobilization / Ricardo Ram�irez and Janelle Wong -- Politics among young adults in New York : the immigrant second generation / John Mollenkopf ... [et al.] -- Plus �ca change, plus c'est la m�eme chose? : an examination of the racial attitudes of new immigrants in the United States / Tatishe Mavovosi Nteta -- The political assimilation of the fourth wave / Kathryn Pearson and Jack Citrin -- But do they bowl? : race, immigrant incorporation, and civic voluntarism in the United States / S. Karthick Ramakrishnan -- Conclusions / Taeku Lee, S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, and Ricardo Ram�irez.

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