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Assimilation Models, Old and New: Explaining a Long-Term Process

Authors:
Susan K. Brown, University of California, Irvine
Publication Date:
Jan 2006
Project Programs:
Immigration

Assimilation, sometimes known as integration or incorporation, is the process by which the characteristics of members of immigrant groups and host societies come to resemble one another. That process, which has both economic and sociocultural dimensions, begins with the immigrant generation and continues through the second generation and beyond.

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