New Immigrants in New York / Edition 2

by Nancy Foner

Overview

Thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the composition of New York City's immigrant population, this book brings together contributions from leaders in their respective fields to show how new immigrants are transforming the city—and how New York, in turn, has affected the newcomers' lives. The contributors consider the four largest groups—Dominicans, former Soviets, Chinese, and Jamaicans—as well as Mexicans, Koreans, and West Africans. An introduction highlights the groups' commonalities and differences. The book also includes an analysis of the city's altered demographic structure and its labor market.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231124157
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	08/29/2001
Edition description:	completely revised and updated edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1430L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her most recent book is In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction: New Immigrants in a New New York, by Nancy Foner
2. Immigrant to New York: Policy Population and Patterns, by Ellen Percy Kraly and Ines Miyares
3. Immigrants, the Native Born and the Changing Division of Labor in New York City, by Richard Wright and Mark Ellis
4. Soviet Jews: The City's Newest Immigrants Transform New York Jewish Life, by Annelise Orleck
5. Chinese: Divergent Destinies in Immigrant New York, by Min Zhou
6. Koreans: An "Institutionally Complete" Community in New York, by Pyong Gap Min
7. Jamaicans: Balancing Race and Ethnicity, by Milton Vickerman
8. West Africans: Trading Places in New York, by Paul Stoller
9. Dominicans: Transnational Identities and Local Politics, by Patricia R. Pessar and Pamela M. Graham
10. Mexicans: Social, Educational, Economic, and Political Problems and Prospects in New York, by Robert Smith
About the Contributors
Index

What People are Saying About This

Christopher Mitchell

It is a pioneer work in making one of the most difficult connections among research fields: the link between migration analysis and urban studies.

— Christopher Mitchell, Director, NYU Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (of the first ed.)

Editorial Reviews

Overall this book makes a valuable contribution in showing not only how the new immigrants are faring in their encounter with New York City, but how the city itself is changing from the same encounter.

American Anthropologist (of the first ed.)

New Immigrants in New York is an excellent collection of essays on New York City's changing immigrants.

Journal of American Ethnic History - David M. Reimers

[T]he volume consists of uniformly outstanding studies of Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Jamaicans, West Africans, Dominicans and Mexicans... [R]ichly detailed and highly informative accounts of how immigrants are transforming New York and how the city is transforming them, in turn.

Urban Studies - Robert L. Boyd

Wrap a subway map around this academic book and you have one of the most useful and up-to-date guides to New York City in years.... As editor of this volume, Nancy Foner deserves credit for keeping her writers true to their assignments.

The New York Times Book Review (of the first ed.)

An outstanding collection... A rich ethnic feast in a single volume.

The Times of the Americas (of the first ed.)

In times of increasing racial tension, research that interprets changing patterns of racial and ethnic relations in the city of New York is certainly a welcome addition to the literature.

American Journal of Sociology (of the first ed.)

A landmark New York immigrant study.

The New York Sun

Wrap a subway map around this academic book and you have one of the most useful and up-to-date guides to New York City in years.... As editor of this volume, Nancy Foner deserves credit for keeping her writers true to their assignments.

The New York Times Book Review

Overall this book makes a valuable contribution in showing not only how the new immigrants are faring in their encounter with New York City, but how the city itself is changing from the same encounter.

American Anthropologist

In times of increasing racial tension, research that interprets changing patterns of racial and ethnic relations in the city of New York is certainly a welcome addition to the literature.

American Journal of Sociology

An outstanding collection... A rich ethnic feast in a single volume.

The Times of the Americas

New Immigrants in New York is an excellent collection of essays on New York City's changing immigrants.

— David M. Reimers

Journal of American Ethnic History

[T]he volume consists of uniformly outstanding studies of Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Jamaicans, West Africans, Dominicans and Mexicans... [R]ichly detailed and highly informative accounts of how immigrants are transforming New York and how the city is transforming them, in turn.

— Robert L. Boyd

Urban Studies

One of the most useful and up-to-date guides to New York City in years.

New York Times Book Review

A pioneer work.

Christopher Mitchell

An outstanding collection . . . A rich ethnic feast in a single volume.

Times of the Americas