In a new land : a comparative view of immigration / Nancy Foner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foner, Nancy, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Cross-cultural studies.

Emigration and immigration.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Europe--Emigration and immigration.

Europe.

New York (N.Y.)--Emigration and immigration.

New York (N.Y.).

London (England)--Emigration and immigration.

London (England).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 325 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2005.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

2007 Choice Outstanding Academic Title!According to the 2000 census, more than 10% of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes one fifth of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Leading immigration studies scholar, Nancy Foner, answers this question in her study of comparative immigration. Drawing on the rich history of American immigrants and current statistical and ethnographic data, In a New Land compares today’s new immigrants with the past influxes of Europeans to the United States and across cities and regions within the United States. Foner looks at immigration across nation-states, and over different periods of time, offering a comprehensive assessment and analysis.This original approach to the study of recent U.S. immigration focuses on race and ethnicity, gender, and transnational connections. Centering her analysis on the groups that have come through and significantly shaped New York City, Foner compares today’s Latin American, Asian, and Caribbean newcomers with eastern and southern European immigrants a century ago and with immigrants in other major U.S. cities. Looking beyond the United States, Foner compares West Indian immigrants in New York with those in London. And, more generally, the book views the process of immigrants’ integration in New York against other recent immigrant destinations in Europe.Drawing on a wealth of historical and contemporary research, and written in a clear and lively style, In a New Land provides fresh insights into the dynamics of immigration today and the implications for where we are headed in the future.

Contents:

The social construction of race in two immigrant eras

Immigrants and African Americans

Transnationalism old and new

Immigrant women and work, then and now

Being Black in London and New York : the Caribbean experience

Place matters : comparative perspectives on the West Indian migrant experience

Gendered transitions : Jamaican women in New York and London

How exceptional is New York? : immigration in urban America

Immigration past and present : some U.S.-Europe comparisons.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-303) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)

ISBN:

9780814727966

0814727964

9781429414104

1429414103

9780814728598

0814728596

OCLC:

80248948