The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life

Yalidy Matos of Rutgers University reviews The Other Side of Assimilation: How Immigrants Are Changing American Life by Tomás R Jiménez. This book shows that assimilation is not a one-way street. Jiménez explains how established Americans undergo their own assimilation in response to profound immigration-driven ethnic, racial, political, economic, and cultural shifts. Drawing on interviews with a race and class spectrum of established Americans in three different Silicon Valley cities, The Other Side of Assimilation illuminates how established Americans make sense of their experiences in immigrant-rich environments, in work, school, public interactions, romantic life, and leisure activities. Jiménez reveals how immigration not only changes the American cityscape but also reshapes the United States by altering the outlooks and identities of its most established citizens. 

Read the book review at https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918319855068.