Migration,Transnationalization,and Race in a Changing New York

by Hector R Cordero-Guzman (Editor), Robert C Smith (Editor), Ramon Grosfoguel (Editor)

Overview

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 ofimmigrants 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, 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.

Author Biography: Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán is an Assistant Professor at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School University in New York City. Robert C. Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Barnard College and part of the Barnard Project on Migration and Diasporas. Ramón Grosfoguel is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Boston College.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781566398879
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	08/28/2001
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.32(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction – Robert C. Smith, Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán, and Ramón Grosfoguel
Part I: Transnationalization, Globalization and Migration

Transnationalism, Then and Now: New York Immigrants Today and at the Turn of the Century – Nancy Foner
The Generation of Identity: Haitian Youth and the Transnational Nation-State – Georges E. Fouron and Nina Glick Schiller
Political Incorporation and Re-Incorporation: Simultaneity in the Dominican Migrant Experience – Pamela M. Graham
Suburban Transmigrants: Long Island's Salvadorans – Sarah Mahler
The Rules of the Game and the Game of the Rules: The Political Dimension of Recent Chinese Immigration to New York – Zai Liang
Gendered and Racialized Circulation-Migration: Implications for the Poverty and Work Experience of New York's Puerto Rican Women – Dennis Conway, Adrian J. Bailey, and Mark Ellis

Part II: Migration and Socio-Economic Incorporation in New York City

Class, Race, and Success: Indian-Americans Confront the American Dream – Johanna Lessinger
Ethnic Niches and Racial Traps: Jamaicans in the New York Regional Economy – Philip Kasinitz and Milton Vickerman
Neither Ignorance nor Bliss: Race, Racism and the West Indian Immigrant Experience – Vilna Bashi
Peruvian Historical Networks for Migration in New York City – Alex Julca
Entrepreneurship and Business Development among African-Americans, Koreans, and Jews: Exploring Some Structural Differences – Jennifer Lee
When Co-ethnic Assets Become Liabilities: Mexicans, Ecuadorian and Chinese Garment Workers in New York City – Margaret M. Chin