Still the Promised City?
Title | Still the Promised City? PDF eBook |
Author | Roger David Waldinger |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 374 |
Release | 2000 |
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Still the Promised City?
Title | Still the Promised City? PDF eBook |
Author | Roger David Waldinger |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780674000728 |
Waldinger examines why African-Americans have fared so poorly in securing unskilled jobs in the postwar era and why new immigrants have done so well. Using New York to look at the relationships among race, immigration, and social mobility, Waldinger offers a new understanding of a serious social problem and fresh approaches to attacking it.
The Promised City
Title | The Promised City PDF eBook |
Author | Moses Rischin |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780674715011 |
Rischin paints a vivid picture of Jewish life in New York at the turn of the century. Here are the old neighborhoods and crowded tenements, the Rester Street markets, the sweatshops, the birth of Yiddish theatre in America, and the founding of important Jewish newspapers and labor movements. The book describes, too, the city's response to this great influx of immigrants--a response that marked the beginning of a new concept of social responsibility.
Youth and Work in the Post-Industrial City of North America and Europe
Title | Youth and Work in the Post-Industrial City of North America and Europe PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 445 |
Release | 2002-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9047404262 |
In North-American and European cities, youth live in precarious social and economic conditions. The issue of employment has become a political problem. In this volume, sociological, economical and ethnographical perspectives are used to explain ethnic discrimination, inequalities at school, unemployment and marginalization. Work remains a central value in young peoples' lives who not only are victimized but also try to find escapes. Originally in French, this extended and updated book contains contributions by Enrico Pugliese, Saskia Sassen, Min Zhou, François Dubet, Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod, Ida Susser and others.
Strangers at the Gates
Title | Strangers at the Gates PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Waldinger |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2001-10-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520230930 |
These essays look at U.S. immigration and the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies. They argue that immigration today is fundamentaly urban and that immigrants are flocking to places where low-skilled workers are in trouble.
Blurring the Color Line
Title | Blurring the Color Line PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Alba |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 321 |
Release | 2012-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0674053486 |
Richard Alba argues that the social cleavages that separate Americans into distinct, unequal ethno-racial groups could narrow dramatically in the coming decades. In Blurring the Color Line, Alba explores a future in which socially mobile minorities could blur stark boundaries and gain much more control over the social expression of racial differences.
International Migration
Title | International Migration PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas S. Massey |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 408 |
Release | 2004-03-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0191533394 |
International Migration: Prospects and Policies offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of global patterns of international migration and the policies employed to manage the flows. It shows that international migration is not rooted in poverty or rapid population growth, but in the expansion and consolidation of global markets. As nations are structurally transformed by their incorporation into global markets, people are displaced from traditional livelihoods and become international migrants. In seeking to work abroad, they do not necessarily move to the closest or richest destination, but to places already connected to their countries of origin socially, economically, and politically. When they move, migrants rely heavily on social networks created by earlier waves of immigrants, and, in recent years, professional migration brokers have become increasingly common. Developing countries generally benefit from international migration because migrant savings and remittances provide foreign earnings to finance balance of payments deficits and make productive investments. Some developing nations have gone so far as to establish programs or ministries dedicated to the export of workers. Developed nations, in contrast, focus more on the social and economic costs of immigrants and seek to reduce their numbers, regulate their characteristics, and limit their access to social services. Over time, receiving nations have gravitated toward a similar set of restrictive policies, yielding undocumented migration as a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization also creates infrastructures of transportation, communication, and social networks to put developed societies within reach. In the latter, ageing populations and segmenting markets create a persistent demand for immigrant workers. All these trends are likely to intensify in the coming years to make immigration policy a key political issue in the twenty-first century.