Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Philadelphia's immigrant communities in historical perspective / Ayumi Takenaka and Mary Johnson Osirim
  • pt. 1. Community formation and intra (and inter-) ethnic relations
  • 125 years of building Jewish immigrant communities in Philadelphia / Rakhmiel Peltz
  • Mapping memories in stone : Italians and the transformation of a Philadelphia landscape / Joan Saverino
  • From pan-Latino enclaves to a community : Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia, 1910-2005 / Victor Vazquez-Hernandez
  • Opportunity, conflict, and communities in transition : historical and contemporary Chinese immigration to Philadelphia / Lena Sze
  • pt. 2. Role of institutions
  • German immigration to Philadelphia from the colonial period through the early 20th century / Birte Pfleger
  • Changes in the behavior of immigrants : the Irish in Philadelphia / Noel J.J. Farley and Philip L. Kilbride
  • Mexican immigrants and health care services in Philadelphia / Jennifer Atlas
  • pt. 3. Identity formation in a trans-national context
  • Philadelphia's Haitian community : transnationalism and unity in the formation of identity / Garvey F. Lundy
  • The new African diaspora : transnationalism and transformation in Philadelphia / Mary Johnson Osirim
  • From Kerala to Philadelphia : the experiences of Malayalee, Hindu nurses in Philadelphia / Rasika Chakravarthy and Ajay Nair
  • The other Asians in the other Philadelphia : understanding Cambodian experiences in neighborhoods, classrooms, and Workplaces / Ellen Skilton-Sylvester and Keo Chea.