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New immigrants in New York

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Foner Nancy, 1945-
Published: Columbia University Press,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2001.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: Completely rev. and updated ed.
Subjects:
Minorities > New York (State) > New York.
Immigrants > New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions.
New York (N.Y.) > Emigration and immigration.
New York (N.Y.) > Economic conditions.
Carrier Form: viii, 313 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0231124147 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231124155 (pbk.)
Index Number: D771
CLC: D771.238
F171.27
Call Number: D771.238/N532/Rev.ed.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: new immigrants in a new New York / Nancy Foner -- Immigration to New York: policy, population, and patterns / Ellen Percy Kraly and Ines Miyares -- Immigrants, the native-born, and the changing division of labor in New York City / Richard Wright and Mark Ellis -- Soviet Jews: the city's newest immigrants transform New York Jewish life / Annelise Orleck -- Chinese: divergent destinies in immigrant New York / Min Zhou -- Koreans: an "institutionally complete community" in New York / Pyong Gap Min -- Jamaicans: balancing race and ethnicity / Milton Vickerman -- West Africans: trading places in New York / Paul Stoller -- Dominicans: transnational identities and local politics / Patricia R. Pessar and Pamela M. Graham -- Mexicans: social, educational, economic, and political problems and prospects in New York / Robert C. Smith.

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