Migrants to the metropolis
Subtitle: the rise of immigrant gateway cities
By: edited by Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short.
Contributors: Price, Marie.; Benton-Short, Lisa.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Space, place, and society
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780815631613; 9780815631866
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Congresses; Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- Congresses; Cities and towns -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a workshop held at George Washington University in January 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Migrants to the metropolis : the rise of immigrant gateway cites, an introduction / Lisa Benton-Short and Marie Price; title: Urban immigrant gateways in a globalizing world / Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short; title: New York City : America's classic immigrant gateway / Nancy Foner; title: Sydney : the globalization of an established immigrant gateway / Graeme Hugo; title: DiverCity Toronto : Canada's premier gateway city / Lucia Lo; title: The non "global city" of Birmingham, UK : a gateway through time / Cheryl McEwan, Jane Pollard, and Nick Henry; title: Amsterdam: a multicultural gateway? / Annemarie Bodaar; title: Gateway Singapore : immigration policies, differential (non)incorporation, and identity politics / Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Natalie Yap; title: Washington, D.c. : from biracial city to multiethnic gateway / Elizabeth Chacko; title: Dublin : an emerging gateway / Mary Gilmartin; title: Mean streets : johannesburg as an emergent gateway / Jonathan Crush; title: In the margins of Riyadh : Indonesian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia / Rachel Silvey; title: Immigrants and natives in Tel Aviv : what's the difference? / David Bartram; title: Keeping the gateway shut : regulating global city-ness in Seoul / Yeong-Hyun Kim; title: Sao Paulo : historic immigrant gateway to contemporary emigrant outpost / Emily Skop and Sarah Zell.