Welcome to America: The Complete Guide for Immigrants
About 800,000 legal immigrants enter this country every year.
The vast majority of them face similar problems: a language
barrier, culture shock, and very little knowledge of day-to-day
life in America. All of them learn through trial and error and by
talking to fellow immigrants who have been in the country longer.
These days, books about every sphere of human activity that are
written by experts in the field are widely available. You can find
"how to" books and crash courses on any subject
imaginable, but immigrants are excluded from this sea of
accessible information. Most of the books about immigration are
written by history scholars, who offer post hoc analyses of how
difficult it was for immigrants from various countries or regions
to become Americans.
The lack of practical guides in this area is understandable.
They can be written only by immigrants themselves because
non-immigrants don't have the necessary experience and would not
know what to write about. At the same time, immigrants are a group
that is the least likely to attempt to fill this information gap
because of the aforementioned language barrier, culture shock, and
very little knowledge of the daily life in the new culture. There
is no such thing as a "professional immigrant" who has
gone through the process more than once and gained the necessary
experience. It is a vicious cycle. It is therefore not surprising
that such books have not been written despite the long history of
immigration in this country.
It would be helpful to have such practical books in the
immigrants' native languages. This would allow them greater access
to the necessary information and ease their transition into the
new culture. However, it would be even better to have a
comprehensive "one stop shopping" book in English. That
would not only provide immigrants with the knowledge they need but
also help their language acquisition. In fact, it would be ideal
to have a book in two languages simultaneously: in English and in
an immigrant's native language. This would reduce stress by giving
newcomers useful information in their native language and at the
same time help them with learning English by providing meaningful
content and the convenience of a translated text that eliminates
the need for time-consuming searches for unfamiliar words in a
dictionary.
This book is a first real attempt to break the vicious cycle
described above. It includes much of the information that will be
useful to newcomers in English and can therefore be used by
immigrants from any country. At the same time, it will be
especially helpful for Russian speakers because it offers a
Russian version of the text as well.
| "Well
written and organized book with great informative content.
Very well suited for throughout reading or to be used
as a reference for many of difficult situations encountered
not only by immigrants but also for those who grew up
in this country."
-Reviewer: Aleksandr Rabinovich from Boston, MA USA |
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Immigrants
Welcome to America: The Complete Guide for Immigrants
English-Russian
Version.
By Vitaliy Demin and Olga Demin Lambert
1008-page 7" x 10" hardcover
Tables, Charts,
Bibliography, Index
ISBN 0-9727888-0-8
LCCN 2003103361Publication date: October 2003
Published by ViOLa Publishing, LLC
Post Office Box 297, Saco,
ME 04072
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