Edition |
Completely revised and updated edition. |
Description |
viii, 313 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: new immigrants in a new New York / Nancy Foner -- Immigration to New York: policy, population, and patterns / Ellen Percy Kraly and Ines Miyares -- Immigrants, the native-born, and the changing division of labor in New York City / Richard Wright and Mark Ellis -- Soviet Jews: the city's newest immigrants transform New York Jewish life / Annelise Orleck -- Chinese: divergent destinies in immigrant New York / Min Zhou -- Koreans: an "institutionally complete community" in New York / Pyong Gap Min -- Jamaicans: balancing race and ethnicity / Milton Vickerman -- West Africans: trading places in New York / Paul Stoller -- Dominicans: transnational identities and local politics / Patricia R. Pessar and Pamela M. Graham -- Mexicans: social, educational, economic, and political problems and prospects in New York / Robert C. Smith. |
Subject |
Minorities -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
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Added Author |
Foner, Nancy, 1945-
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ISBN |
0231124147 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0231124155 paperback |
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