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Migrants To the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities (Space, Place and Society)
Marie Price
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Description for Migrants To the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities (Space, Place and Society)
Paperback. A collection of essays examining contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. It provides a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration driven by income differentials, social networks, and various state policies that recruit skilled and unskilled laborers. Editor(s): Price, Marie; Benton-Short, Lisa. Num Pages: 424 pages, 11 illustrations, 22 figures, 17 maps, 38 tables, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSG; JFSL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 617.
Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before. Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries but cities. This remarkable collection examines contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. The book focuses not only on cities with long-established diverse populations, such as New York, Toronto, and Sydney, but also on lesser known established gateway cities such as Birmingham (UK) and Amsterdam, and the emerging gateways of Johannesburg, Washington, D.C., Singapore, and Dublin.The essays gathered here provide a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration ... Read more
Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before. Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries but cities. This remarkable collection examines contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. The book focuses not only on cities with long-established diverse populations, such as New York, Toronto, and Sydney, but also on lesser known established gateway cities such as Birmingham (UK) and Amsterdam, and the emerging gateways of Johannesburg, Washington, D.C., Singapore, and Dublin.The essays gathered here provide a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815631866
SKU
V9780815631866
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About Marie Price
Marie Price is associate professor of geography and international affairs at the George Washington University. She is coauthor of Diversity amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, and Development. Lisa Benton-Short is associate professor of geography at the George Washington University. She has published several books, including Cities and Nature and The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park.
Reviews for Migrants To the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities (Space, Place and Society)
This book has great value, both for its scholarly contributions to research on the migratory dimensions of globalization and for its utility as a teaching tool. The essays of this book paint a picture of a shifting global landscape shaped by global capital, by ever growing social networks, the reaffirmation of the nation-state, and through contestation. ... Read more