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Ethnicity, Assimilation And Transnationalism: A Comparative Study Of Eastern European Migration To The United States (1940-2012), Cezara Olga Crisan
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Cezara Olga Crisan
Loyola University Chicago
ETHNICITY, ASSIMILATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM:
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EASTERN EUROPEAN MIGRATION
TO THE UNITED STATES (1940-2012)
Transnationalism is a relatively new pattern of migration; the process by which transnationalism has supplanted assimilation has been the subject of this study, and it has been done by comparing the immigration experience of Eastern Europeans, before and after the demise of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe.
The study employed a qualitative methodology with a total of sixty one respondents divided in two groups from Eastern Europe - a "pre-communist wave" and a "post-communist wave" - who …