A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona
Brand: Stanford University Press
Categories: Books, Politics & Social Sciences, Sociology



Dimensions: 6 x 0.63 x 9 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1503604780
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Print length: 208 pages
Publication date: May 29, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1503604780
Edition: 1st
subtitle: 1st Edition
author: Ernesto Castañeda
review: Editorial Reviews Review "Based on extensive fieldwork in three immigrant-receiving cities, this book provides a rich first-hand look at how immigrants adapt and react to different contexts of reception and how these contexts affect long-term outcomes for their foreign-origin populations. A valuable and original contribution to the study of immigration and ethnicity." -- Alejandro Portes ― Princeton University "This brilliant transnational ethnography illuminates how immigrants constantly negotiate their host communities and their native ones. An astounding fourteen years of painstaking fieldwork provide a one-of-a-kind look at the lives of undocumented and documented immigrants within international, national, and community contexts. This social science masterpiece provides a definitive analysis on what must be done to improve the integration process for vulnerable immigrant populations." -- Victor M. Rios ― University of California, Santa Barbara " A Place to Call Home deepens our knowledge of how place matters in shaping immigrant integration. This book is an important contribution to the study of immigration and cities and leads to more interesting questions...The insights uncovered by this work have important implications for designing better policy for welcoming immigrants into cities."––Jackelyn Hwang, American Journal of Sociology "[Castañeda] develops a rich dialogue between prior research, survey respondents, and ethnographic insights for each city. A Place to Call Home will make an appealing addition to undergraduate or graduate courses in sociology, politics, immigration, citizenship, religion, and ethnic studies."–– Stephen P. Ruszczyk, Sociological Forum About the Author Ernesto Castañeda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the American University in Washington, DC.