Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood : Brooklyn's Sunset Park /
"Based on more than a decade of research, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population--from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighbo...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
Temple University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Immigrant Places: Toward a Theory of Global Neighborhoods
- 2. Making Sunset Park: Settlement, Decline, and Transformation
- 3. The Working Poverty of Neighborhood Revitalization: Industrial Sweatshops and Street Vendors
- 4. Immigrant Growth Coalitions and Neighborhood Change: The Role of Ethnic Banks
- 5. Gentrifying Sunset Park: Community Boards, City Planning, and a Migrant Civil Society
- 6. Power Plants, Sex Shops, Industrial Zones, and Open Space: The Politics of a Sustainable Working Waterfront.