Constructing borders/crossing boundaries
Subtitle: race, ethnicity, and immigration
By: edited by Caroline B. Brettell.
Contributors: Brettell, Caroline.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780739115695
Subjects: Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions.; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.; Ethnicity -- United States.; Ethnic barriers -- United States.; United States -- Race relations.; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Other titles: Constructing borders, crossing boundaries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race, ethnicity and the construction of immigrant identities / Caroline B. Brettell; title: Violence, migration, and becoming Igbo in Gustavus Vassa's Interesting narrative / Alexander X. Byrd; title: Undue process : racial genealogies of immigrant detention / David Manuel Hernández; title: The immigrant experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in the 1990s : crossing class, racial, and gender boundaries or temporary work spaces in New York City / Norma Fuentes; title: Ethnic borders in American Muslim communities / Jamillah Karim; title: Black ethnicity and racial community : African-Americans and West Indian immigrants in the United States / Alana C. Hackshaw; title: Appalachian Mestizaje : race and Latino immigration in western North Carolina / Mariel Rose; title: Job-hopping : social networks in the global high-tech industry / Johanna Shih; title: Beyond the ethnic enclave : the effect of ethnic solidarity and market opportunity on white, Korean, Mexican, and Black enterprise / Zulema Valdez; title: Separately together : co-ethnic employment among second-generation immigrants in the metropolitan New York labor market / Aviva Zeltzer-Zubida; title: Immigrant selectivity, ethnic capital, and the reproduction of educational inequalities across borders / Cynthia Feliciano.