Strangers at the Gates : New Immigrants in Urban America /

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These essays look at U.S. immigration and the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies. They argue that immigration today is fundamentaly urban and that immigrants are flocking to places where low-skilled workers are in trouble.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Waldinger, Roger David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Steden.
Immigranten.
Stadt
Einwanderung
Sozialökologie
Immigrants > Social conditions.
Immigrants > Economic conditions.
Foreign workers.
Cities and towns.
Urban minorities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Minorites en milieu urbain > États-Unis.
Villes > États-Unis.
Travailleurs etrangers > États-Unis.
Immigrants > États-Unis > Conditions economiques.
Immigrants > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Urban minorities > United States.
Cities and towns > United States.
Foreign workers > United States.
Immigrants > United States > Economic conditions.
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
USA.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Strangers at the gates / Roger Waldinger
  • New immigrants in urban America / Roger Waldinger and Jennifer Lee
  • Up from poverty? "Race," immigration, and the fate of low-skilled workers / Roger Waldinger
  • A tale of five cities? Trends in immigrant and native-born wages / Mark Ellis
  • The geography of immigrant poverty : selective evidence of an immigrant underclass / William A.V. Clark
  • On the back of Blacks? Immigrants and the fortunes of African Americans / Nelson Lim
  • The immigrant niche : pervasive, persistent, diverse / Roger Waldinger and Claudia Der-Martirosian
  • Progress, decline, stagnation? The new second generation comes of age / Min Zhou
  • Conclusion : Immigration and the remaking of urban America / Roger Waldinger.

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