Home and Homeland

From Homeland to a Home: Immigrants and Homeownership in Urban America

I. Overview and Statement of Findings The 1990s was an extraordinary decade in terms of the number and cultural diversity of migrants who arrived to live in the United States. We are only beginning to appreciate the long-term implications of decisions and actions taken by individual migrants and American institutions during this period of strong economic growth. The influence of international m...

Homeland Security

Keeping the Home Fires Burning: The Changed Nature of Householding in the Kofyar Homeland

In the early 1960s‚ Robert Netting described househ olds in the Kofyar hom eland in Nigeria and explained their size‚ composition ‚ and other characteristics as adju stments to agrarian ecology. Household changes attending movement to a frontier were analyzed in the same framework. By the 1980s‚ the econom ic ration ale for hom eland farming had all but disappeared ‚ and some villages seemed on...

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