On the Transplanted
Bodnar, John. The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987. pp. 320. Paperback.
This is a solid work that essentially argues that immigrants were fundamental a modern group of people (in contrast to those saying that they were premodern and maintained pre-modern traditions upon coming to the US) while accepting claims that immigrants were fundamentally rooted in their communities, families, and jobs.