Assimilation and Its Discontented

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Bio: Kay Deaux is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a Research Affiliate in the Department of Psychology at New York University. Her most recent book, To Be An Immigrant (Russell Sage, 2006), offers a broad-gauged social psychological analysis of immigration, focusing particularly on the perspective and experiences of the immigrant. She has served as President of the Association for Psychological Science and serves on the Advisory Committee for Cultural Contact and Immigration at the Russell Sage Foundation