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A place to call home : immigrant exclusion and urban belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona / Ernesto Castañeda.
LIBRA JV7048 .C37 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castañeda, Ernesto, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Social aspects.
- Social integration.
- Social conditions.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Immigrants--France--Paris--Social conditions.
- Immigrants--Spain--Barcelona--Social conditions.
- Social integration--New York (State)--New York.
- Social integration--France--Paris.
- Social integration--Spain--Barcelona.
- New York (N.Y.)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Paris (France)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Paris (France).
- Barcelona (Spain)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Barcelona (Spain).
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Immigrants--Social conditions.
- France--Paris.
- Spain--Barcelona.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 186 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barriers, to differing social norms, to legal boundaries separating them from established residents, they are constantly navigating shifting and contradictory expectations both to assimilate to their new culture and to honor their native one. In A Place to Call Home, Ernesto Castañeda offers a uniquely comparative portrait of immigrant expectations and experiences. Drawing on fourteen years of ethnographic observation and hundreds of interviews with documented and undocumented immigrants and their children, Castañeda sets out to determine how different locations can aid or disrupt the process of immigrant integration. Focusing on New York City, Paris, and Barcelona-immigration hubs in their respective countries-he compares the experiences of both Latino and North African migrants, and finds that subjective understandings, local contexts, national and regional history, and religious institutions are all factors that profoundly impact the personal journey to belonging. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Context of reception, individual experience, and urban belonging
- New York : work but no papers
- Paris : few cultural rights
- Barcelona : deliberate integration
- Religion and immigrant integration
- Urban belonging : objective milestones and subjective interpretations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Castañeda, Ernesto. Place to call home.
- ISBN:
- 9781503604780
- 1503604780
- 9781503605763
- 1503605760
- OCLC:
- 1012668494
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