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Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada
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The International Migration Review
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July 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright Center for Migration Studies Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. By Irene Bloemraad. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. 369. $55.00 hardcover. $21.95 paperback.
KAREN A. WOODROW-LAFIELD
Bloemraad's Becoming a Citizen is a rare treasure for scholars of many disciplines and methodological orientations. This treatment of Vietnamese and Portuguese immigrants in Toronto and Boston demonstrates that political incorporation of immigrants and refugees must be understood as a process of structured mobilization within macro-level contexts. Political incorporation as full citizenship is defined here as naturalization plus participatory or substantive ...