| Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York Contributor(s): Cordero-Guzman, Hector R. (Editor), Smith, Robert C. (Editor), Grosfoguel, Ramon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1566398886 ISBN-13: 9781566398886 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2001 Annotation: When you think of American immigration, what images come to mind? Ellis Island. East Side tenements. Pushcarts on Eighth Avenue. Little Italy. Chinatown. El Barrio. New York City has always been central to the immigrant experience in the United States. In the last three decades, the volume of immigration has increased as has the diversity of immigrant origins and experiences. Contemporary immigration conjures up old images but also some new ones: The sweatshops and ethnic neighborhoods are still there, but so are cell phones, faxes, e-mails, and the more intense and multilayered involvement of immigrants in the social, economic, and political life of both home and host societies. In this ambitious book, nineteen scholars from a broad range of disciplines bring our understanding of New York's immigrant communities up to date by exploring the interaction between economic globalization and transnationalization, demographic change, and the evolving racial, ethnic, and gender dynamics in the city. Urban and suburban, Asian, European, Latin American, and Caribbean, men and women and children -- the essays here analyze the complex forces that shape the contemporary immigrant experience in New York City and the links between immigrant communities in New York and their countries of origin. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Minority Studies |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 00053675 |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 7.1" W x 10.06" (1.48 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Geographic Orientation - New York |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this work, 19 scholars from a range of disciplines discuss New York's immigrant communities. They explore the interaction between economic globalization and transnationalization, demographic change, and the evolving racial, ethnic and gender dynamics in the city. |