Strangers at the gates
Subtitle: new immigrants in urban America
By: edited by Roger Waldinger.
Contributors: Waldinger, Roger David.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions; Alien labor -- United States; Cities and towns -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Strangers at the gates / Roger Waldinger; title: New immigrants in urban America / Roger Waldinger and Jennifer Lee; title: Up from poverty? "Race," immigration, and the fate of low-skilled workers / Roger Waldinger; title: A tale of five cities? Trends in immigrant and native-born wages / Mark Ellis; title: The geography of immigrant poverty : selective evidence of an immigrant underclass / William A.V. Clark; title: On the back of Blacks? Immigrants and the fortunes of African Americans / Nelson Lim; title: The immigrant niche : pervasive, persistent, diverse / Roger Waldinger and Claudia Der-Martirosian; title: Progress, decline, stagnation? The new second generation comes of age / Min Zhou; title: Conclusion : Immigration and the remaking of urban America / Roger Waldinger.