Making A Global Immigrant Neighborhood

Author : Tarry Hum
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439910900
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood written by Tarry Hum and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than a decade of research, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population--from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City's most vibrant neighborhoods. Tarry Hum shows how processes of globalization, such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns, shaped the neighborhood. She explains why Sunset Park's future now depends on Asian and Latino immigrant collaborations in advancing common interests in community building, civic engagement, entrepreneurialism, and sustainability planning. She shows, too, how residents' responses to urban development policies and projects and the capital represented by local institutions and banks foster community activism. Hum pays close attention to the complex social, political, and spatial dynamics that forge a community and create new models of leadership as well as coalitions. The evolution of Sunset Park so astutely depicted in this book suggests new avenues for studying urban change and community development.

Author : Judith N. DeSena
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739166700
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World in Brooklyn written by Judith N. DeSena and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to them. The idea for this volume developed as the editors discovered a group of scholars from different disciplines and various universities studying Brooklyn. Brooklyn has always been legendary and has more recently regained its stature as a much sought after place to live, work and have fun. Popular folklore has it that most U.S. residents trace their family origins to Brooklyn. It is presently referred to as one of the "hippest" places in New York. Thus, this book is a collection of demographic, ethnographic, and comparative studies which focus on urban dynamics in Brooklyn. The chapters investigate issues of social class, urban development, immigration, race, ethnicity and politics within the context of Brooklyn. As a whole, this book considers both theoretical and practical urban issues. In most cases the scholarly perspective is on everyday life. With this in mind there are also social justice concerns. Issues of social segregation and attendant homogenization are brought to light. Moreover, social class and race advantages or disadvantages, as part of urban processes, are underscored through critiques of local policy decisions throughout the chapters. A common thread is the assertion by contributors that planning the future of Brooklyn needs to include multi-ethnic, racial, and economic groups, those very residents who make-up Brooklyn.

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969061
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrants and the Revitalization of Los Angeles written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sharon Zukin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317689747
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Cities, Local Streets written by Sharon Zukin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai, a cutting-edge text/ethnography, reports on the rapidly expanding field of global, urban studies through a unique pairing of six teams of urban researchers from around the world. The authors present shopping streets from each city – New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Berlin, Toronto, and Tokyo – how they have changed over the years, and how they illustrate globalization embedded in local communities. This is an ideal addition to courses in urbanization, consumption, and globalization.. The book’s companion website, www.globalcitieslocalstreets.org, has additional videos, images, and maps, alongside a forum where students and instructors can post their own shopping street experiences.

Author : R. Hambleton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230608795
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Cities in a Global Era written by R. Hambleton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the role that ideas, institutions, and actors play in structuring how we govern cities and, more specifically, what projects or paths are taken. Global changes require that we rethink governance and urban policy, and that we do so through the dual lens of theory and practice.

Author : Eric Fong
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074569005X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration and the City written by Eric Fong and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a "one-size-fits-all" approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities. The communities in which immigrants live and the jobs and businesses where they earn their living have become increasingly diversified. In this insightful book, Eric Fong and Brent Berry describe both contemporary patterns of immigration and the urban context in order to understand the social and economic lives of immigrants in the city. By exploring topics such as residential patterns, community form, and cultural influences, this book provides a broader understanding of how newcomers adapt to city life, while also reshaping its very fabric. This comprehensive and engaging book will be an invaluable text for students and scholars of immigration, race, ethnicity, and urban studies.

Author : Timothy Shortell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317963253
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everyday Globalization written by Timothy Shortell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday Globalization is a micro-sociological study of immigrant neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Paris. Global flows of people bring together cultural practices from distant places and urban dwellers in global cities interpret the signs of collective identity in ascribing particular places as "immigrant neighborhoods." This book examines the spatial semiotics of identity in urban public space that make this possible. Unlike other studies of globalization and cities, this work brings together research on the social psychology of groups, linguistic landscapes, and quotidian mobility to explain how urban dwellers encounter cultural differences. Signs of social identity are always interpreted in the context of group boundaries and the appropriation of public space. The breadth of this analysis contributes to the literature in human geography on the meaningfulness of places. This book will also be of interest to scholars and students in visual sociology. In addition, this research demonstrates an innovative method for studying everyday urban experience.

Author : Domenic Vitiello
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249127
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States written by Domenic Vitiello and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of urban crisis, American cities and suburbs have revived, thanks largely to immigration. This is the first book to explore the phenomenon, from big cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, to newer destinations such as Nashville and suburban Boston and New Jersey.

Author : Ping Song
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003826784
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitanism from the Grassroots written by Ping Song and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to present a holistic picture of the Chinese immigrants from Fuzhou in New York. It shows how a small village in Southeast China has expanded to New York and has undergone a transformation over the past few decades, from rural Third World peasants to ethnic entrepreneurs in a global city. Validating Marshall Sahlins’s statement that migrants can “organise the irresistible forces of the world system according to their own system of the world,” the book seeks to explain the following aspects: first, how Chinese migrants from Fuzhou built a self-governing community and provided public goods for its members. Second, how they adapted their pre-modern social relations to a market environment, creating interwoven economic networks in an ethnic economy and reshaping local culture-based economies into a distinctive form of capitalism. Third, how they transformed their religious world, adapting Chinese Buddhism and folk religion as a focus for their society and economy. Fourth, the characteristics of the migrants’ cultural identity, examining the continuities in their identity and how it has changed over time. Students and scholars in anthropology, Chinese studies and cultural studies will find this book essential reading.

Author : John W. Frazier
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438463316
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America, Third Edition written by John W. Frazier and published by Global Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses both historical and contemporary case studies to examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit. This book examines major Hispanic, African, and Asian diasporas in the continental United States and Puerto Rico from the nineteenth century to the present, with particular attention on the diverse ways in which these immigrant groups have shaped and reshaped American places and landscapes. Through both historical and contemporary case studies, the contributors examine how race and ethnicity affect the places we live, work, and visit, illustrating along the way the behaviors and concepts that comprise the modern ethnic and racial geography of immigrant and minority groups. While primarily addressed to students and scholars in the fields of racial and ethnic geography, these case studies will be accessible to anyone interested in race-place connections, race-ethnicity boundaries, the development of racialization, and the complexity of human settlement patterns and landscapes that make up the United States and Puerto Rico. Taken together, they show how individuals and culture groups, through their ideologies, social organization, and social institutions, reflect both local and regional processes of place-making and place-remaking that occur within and beyond the continental United States.