About

Rubén Rumbaut is a professor whose work is associated with the study of Cuba's political and social dynamics. Based on the provided page text, his research interests include the processes of democratization and autocratization in Latin America and Russia, as well as Cuba's social development and political transformations. His scholarly contributions focus on understanding Cuba's civil society, social policy, and the ongoing challenges faced by the Cuban socialist project, including issues related to social rights, civil rights, and the role of civil associations such as religious groups. Rumbaut's work also examines the cultural and political narratives that shape national identity and the ways in which social and political change are enacted within Cuba.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Geography
• Sociology
• Archaeology
• Law
• Psychology
• Demography
• Criminology
• Development economics
• Economics

Selected publications

• 1. The Four Phases of U.S.-Bound Immigration

  2024-04-10

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• Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America

  Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 2024-02-26

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• 9. Conclusion

  2024-04-10

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• Preface to the Fourth Edition

  2024-04-10

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• Preface to the First Edition

  2024-04-10

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• 3. Moving: Patterns of Immigrant Settlement and Spatial Mobility

  2024-04-10

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• Index

  2024-04-10

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• Immigrant America

  University of California Press eBooks · 2024 · 19 citations

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  • Political Science
  • Political Science
  • Geography

  This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants' incorporation within American society. With the latest available data, Immigrant America further explores the economic, political, regional, linguistic, and religious aspects of immigration. It offers detailed analyses of the adaptation process experienced by adult children of immigrants and adds an updated and expanded concluding chapter on changing immigration policy regimes both past and present.

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• 6. Language: Diversity and Resilience

  2024-04-10

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• Acknowledgments for the Third Edition

  2024-04-10

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  As noted in the Preface, successive editions of this book have dovetailed with each of the last three decades and the changes in immigration and global society that they have brought about.This third edition, appearing in the midst of the first decade of a new century and a new millennium, has had to address the multiple changes in the form and content of immigration brought about by sweeping transformations of the global system.Patient readers of this and prior acknowledgment pages will also note that each edition has been preceded and supported by major empirical projects: the first, by Portes's study of Mariel Cuban and Haitian entrants in South Florida and by Rumbaut's study of Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian refugees and their children in Southern California in the 1980s; the second, by the first two panels of Portes and Rumbaut's Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), focused on the new second generation, which followed a sample on both coasts of the United States representing a number of different nationalities.This third edition is no exception, as it draws heavily on the third and final survey for the same study, completed after a decade-long span from the original one, at a time when our respondents had reached early adulthood.As with past editions, our debts of gratitude for the present one are mainly due to those who made this final study (CILS-III) possible.First of all to Eric Wanner, President of the Russell Sage Foundation, who embraced the idea of this new survey from the start and to the RSF's

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01HD015699

  NIH · $32k · 1985

Frequent coauthors

• Alejandro Portes

  73 shared

• Margaret Eisenhart

  University of Colorado Boulder

  22 shared

• William R. Penuel

  University of Colorado Boulder

  22 shared

• Pamela Moss

  12 shared

• Thomas S. Weisner

  11 shared

• Ruby Mendenhall

  Illinois College

  11 shared

• Greg J. Duncan

  11 shared

• Lois Weis

  University at Buffalo, State University of New York

  11 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Sociology

  Brandeis University

  1978

Awards & honors

• Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Elected to the National Academy of Education
• Elected to the Sociological Research Association
• Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine
• Distinguished Career Award, American Sociological Associatio…