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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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Autor principal: Hum, Tarry, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2014.
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.