New faces in new places
Subtitle: the changing geography of American immigration
By: Douglas S. Massey, editor.
Contributors: Massey, Douglas S.
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780871545862
Subjects: Small cities -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration
Description: " ... aims to explain the dramatic shift in the geography of immigrant settlement since the 1990s, and to explore its wide-ranging consequences for new receiving communities in the South and Midwest- from changed intergroup relations to the responses of local institutions and the immigrants themselves."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Places and peoples : the new American mosaic / Charles Hirschman and Douglas S. Massey; title: The geographic diversification of American immigration / Douglas S. Massey and Chiara Capoferro; title: The structure and dynamics of Mexican migration to new destinations in the United States / Mark A. Leach and Frank D. Bean; title: Changing faces, changing places : the emergence of new nonmetropolitan immigrant gateways / Katharine M. Donato ... [et al.]; title: New Hispanic migrant destinations : a tale of two industries / Emilio A. Parrado and William Kandel; title: The origins of employer demand for immigrants in a new destination : the salience of soft skills in a volatile economy / Katharine M. Donato and Carl L. Bankston III; title: Prejudice toward immigrants in the Midwest / Katherine Fennelly; title: New midwesterners, new southerners : immigration experiences in four rural American settings / David Griffith; title: Hispanic immigration, Black population size, and intergroup relations in the rural and small-town South / Helen B. Marrow; title: Nashville's new "Sonido" : Latino migration and the changing politics of race / Jamie Winders; title: The ambivalent welcome : Cinco de Mayo and the symbolic expression of local identity and ethnic relations / Debra Lattanzi Shutika; title: Race to the top? the politics of immigrant education in suburbia / Michael Jones-Correa; title: Assimilation in a new geography / Douglas S. Massey.