ISBN:
9780815779278
,
0815779267
,
9780815779261
,
0815779275
,
9780815779285
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 331 p)
,
ill, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
James A. Johnson metro series
Parallel Title:
Print version Twenty-First Century Gateways : Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America
DDC:
305.9/069120973
Keywords:
Immigrants
;
Suburbs
;
Social integration
;
Metropolitan areas
;
Social integration - United States
;
Electronic books
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
Social aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
As the twentieth century came to a close, the United States experienced an extraordinary transformation of its population. More immigrants, both legal and undocumented, arrived during the decade of the 1990s than in any other decade on record. While immigrants continued to flow into traditional gateways such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, even faster growth occurred in unexpected new locations with no history of immigration?places such as Atlanta, Charlotte, and Dallas-Ft. Worth.Twenty-First Century Gateways focuses on the fastest-growing immigrant populations among ?second-tier? metro
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Toward a Suburban Immigrant Nation; ""Big D""; Diverging Trajectories; Unsettled in the Suburbs; Edge Gateways; Immigrant Space and Place in Suburban Sacramento; Impediments to the Integration of Immigrants; ""Placing"" the Refugee Diaspora in Suburban Portland, Oregon; Austin; The ""Nuevo South""; Afterword; Contributors; Index; Back Cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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