In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration

ISBN: 9780814727461 出版年：2005 页码： Nancy Foner New York University Press

Acknowledgments Introduction: Migration in Comparative Perspective I Comparisons Across Time: Immigrants in New York's Two Great Waves1 The Social Construction of Race in Two Immigrant Eras 2 Immigrants and African Americans 3 Transnationalism Old and New 4 Immigrant Women and Work, Then and Now Comparisons Across Space: West Indians in New York and London5 Being Black in London and New York: The Caribbean Experience6 Place Matters: Comparative Perspectives on the West Indian Migrant Experience 7 Gendered Transitions: Jamaican Women in New York and London III Comparisons Across Space: Urban and National Perspectives8 How Exceptional Is New York? Immigration in Contemporary Urban America 9 Immigration Past and Present: Some U.S.-Europe Comparisons Notes References Index About the Author