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Note from the editor.(Editorial)
March 22, 2009... A funny thing happened as I was sitting down to write the Note from the Editor to this special issue of the National Civic Review on diversity, social capital, and immigrant integration. A colleague e-mailed me a January 26, 2009, article in Newsweek about Lewiston, Maine, a winner of the...
Diversity, social capital, and immigrant integration: introductory remarks.
March 22, 2009... I am very pleased to introduce this National Civic Review issue on immigrant integration.
For sure, we are fulfilling the adage attributed to Confucius, "May you live in interesting times." Twenty years ago, I would not have guessed that by now we'd elect an African American president...
The new gateways: immigrant integration in unexpected places.
March 22, 2009... The "a-ha!" moment, as the former mayor of Littleton, Colorado, Susan Thornton, describes it, came as she was driving through the quaintly old-fashioned business district of her small suburban city south of Denver and noticed a sign for tax preparation in Spanish. "I was quite surprised, and...
"We are America": immigrants and social capital in the United States today.
March 22, 2009... In his 2007 essay "E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-First Century," professor Robert Putnam makes the provocative argument that the increased diversity in the United States caused by immigration has resulted in a decline of "social capital," not only between ethnic...
Note from the editor.
December 22, 2008... For the past few years, the winter issue of the National Civic Review has focused on National Civic League programs, two in particular, the All-America City (AAC) award and the MetLife Foundation Ambassadors in Education (ALE) program. Both of these programs have tremendous value to those who...