LEADER 04843nam 22007214a 450 001 9910450069403321 005 20210618023140.0 010 $a1-282-35589-9 010 $a9786612355899 010 $a0-520-92771-0 010 $a1-59734-922-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520927711 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030682 035 $a(EBL)224248 035 $a(OCoLC)475930319 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000251950 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244209 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000251950 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10176266 035 $a(PQKB)11592138 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055873 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224248 035 $a(OCoLC)70743906 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30458 035 $a(DE-B1597)520072 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520927711 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224248 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10062287 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235589 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030682 100 $a20010201d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aStrangers at the gates$b[electronic resource] $enew immigrants in urban America /$fedited by Roger Waldinger 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-23093-0 311 0 $a0-520-23092-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures and Tables --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Strangers at the Gates --$t2. New Immigrants in Urban America --$t3. Up from Poverty?: "Race," Immigration, and the Fate of Low-Skilled Workers --$t4. A Tale of Five Cities?: Trends in Immigrant and Native-Born Wages --$t5. The Geography of Immigrant Poverty: Selective Evidence of an Immigrant Underclass --$t6. On the Back of Blacks?: Immigrants and the Fortunes of African Americans --$t7. The Immigrant Niche: Pervasive, Persistent, Diverse --$t8. Progress, Decline, Stagnation?: The New Second Generation Comes of Age --$t9. Conclusion: Immigration and the Remaking of Urban America --$tNotes on Contributors --$tIndex 330 $aImmigration is remaking the United States. In New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago, the multiethnic society of tomorrow is already in place. Yet today's urban centers appear unlikely to provide newcomers with the same opportunities their predecessors found at the turn of the last century. Using the latest sources of information, this hard-hitting volume of original essays looks at the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies in these American cities. Strangers at the Gates tells the real story of immigrants' prospects for success today and delineates the conditions that will hinder or aid the newest Americans in their quest to get ahead. This book stresses the crucial importance of understanding that immigration today is fundamentally urban and the equally important fact that immigrants are now flocking to places where low-skilled workers--regardless of ethnic background--are in particular trouble. These two themes are at the heart of this book, which also covers a range of provocative topics, often with surprising findings. Among the essayists, Nelson Lim enters the controversy over whether and how immigrants affect the employment prospects for African Americans; Mark Ellis investigates whether low immigrant wages depress other workers' salaries; William A.V. Clark contends that immigrants seem to be experiencing downward mobility; and Min Zhou asserts that trends among second-generation immigrants are decidedly more optimistic. These well-integrated and well-organized essays sit squarely at the intersection of sociology and economics, and along the way they point out both the strengths and the weaknesses of these two disciplines in understanding immigration. Providing a theoretically and empirically comprehensive overview of the economic fate of immigrants in major American cities, this book will make a major contribution to debates over immigration and the American future. 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xEconomic conditions 606 $aForeign workers$zUnited States 606 $aCities and towns$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImmigrants$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aImmigrants$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aForeign workers 615 0$aCities and towns 676 $a305.9/0691 701 $aWaldinger$b Roger David$0276312 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450069403321 996 $aStrangers at the gates$92469189 997 $aUNINA