POL S 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: American Experience, Advantageous, New Race
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Immigrant political incorporation: the american experience. international labor and working-class history 78: 110-117. This article discusses the process of immigrant incorporation in the united. Gerstle breaks down the process of political incorporation into three categories: legal, cultural, and institutional. Legal incorporation is achieved when immigrants become american citizens, and thus are granted the rights to vote, serve in the military or elected offices, and otherwise participate in legislative processes. Cultural incorporation is mostly invisibly achieved and can be likened to assimilation, where immigrants "become american" in aligning their practices with those of american culture. Some examples of such include learning english, celebrating american holidays, or engaging with. Institutional incorporation regards the steps immigrants take to seek political influence through membership in political institutions. Gerstle also briefly outlines two modes of incorporation: acquiescent and transformational. In dealing with incorporation today, there are four seemingly new issues: The belief that new immigrants are different than past immigrants.
