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Ethnic Los Angeles /

Ethnic Los Angeles presents a multi-investigator study of Los Angeles's immigrant population. Using U.S. census data for the past three decades, essays on each of L.A.'s major ethnic groups tell us where these new Americans live and work, why they came to Los Angeles, and the nature of the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Waldinger, Roger David (Editor ), Bozorgmehr, Mehdi (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [1996]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The making of a multicultural metropolis / Roger Waldinger and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
  • Historical perspectives : immigration and the rise of a distinctive urban region, 1900-1970 / John H.M. Laslett
  • Population change : immigration and ethnic transformation / Georges Sabagh and Mehdi Bozorgmehr
  • Residential patterns : avoidance, assimilation, and succession / William A.V. Clark
  • Language : diversity and assimilation / David E. Lopez
  • The labor market : immigrant effects and racial disparities / Paul Ong and Abel Valenzuela, Jr.
  • Self-employment : mobility ladder or economic lifeboat? / Ivan Light and Elizabeth Roach
  • The manufacturing economy : ethnic and gender divisions of labor / Allen J. Scott
  • The Mexican-origin population : permanent working class or emerging middle class? / Vilma Ortiz
  • Central Americans : at the bottom, struggling to get ahead / David E. Lopez, Eric Popkin, and Edward Telles
  • Asians : the "model minoritity" deconstructed / Lucie Cheng and Philip Q. Yang
  • Middle Easterners : a new kind of immigrant / Mehdi Bozorgmehr, Claudia Der-Martirosian, and Georges Sabagh
  • African Americans : social and economic bifurcation / David M. Grant, Melvin L. Oliver, and Angela D. James
  • Anglos : beyond ethnicity? / Roger Waldinger and Michael Lichter
  • Ethnicity and opportunity in the plural city / Roger Waldinger.