The Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities
Lisa M. Hanley and Blair A. Ruble
In nations across the globe, immigration policies have abandoned strategies of multiculturalism in favor of a "play the game by our rules or leave" mentality. Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities shows how immigrants negotiate with longtime residents over economic, political, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. Host communities are neither as static, nor migrants as passive, as assimilationist policies would suggest. Drawing on anthropology, political science, sociology, and geography, and focusing on such diverse cities as Washington, D.C., Rome, Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Munich, and Dallas, the contributors to this volume challenge both policy makers and academic analysts to reframe their discussions of urban migration, and to recognize the contemporary immigrant city as the dynamic, constantly shifting form of social organization it has become.
What People are Saying
"The literature on urbanization is vast but I do not know of any works that focus on the city as the outcome of negotiating processes. In addition, this volume takes a comparative perspective providing examples from various parts of the world. It is a highly innovative and original contribution." — Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Princeton University
Chapter List
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Renegotiating the City, Blair A. Ruble and Lisa M. Hanley
Part I. The Renegotiation of Urban Space
1 Immigrant Incorporation in Suburbia: Spatial Sorting, Ethnic Mobilization, and Receiving Institutions, Michael Jones-Correa
2 The Placelessness of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
3 "It's Just That People Mix Better Here": Household Narratives of Belonging and Displacement in Seattle, Serin D. Houston and Richard Wright
4 Spatial and Symbolic Patterns of Migrant Settlement: The Case of Muslim Diasporas in Europe, Chantal Saint-Blancat
5 Moving toward Uncertainty: Migration and the Turbulence of African Urban Life, AbdouMaliq Simone
Part II. The Renegotiation of Urban Citizenship
6 Immigrants in a Sunbelt Metropolis: The Transformation of an Urban Place and the Construction of Community, Caroline B. Brettell
7 Postmulticulturalism? David Ley
8 "Community" Health and Transnational Communities: Undocumented Andean Migrants and Tuberculosis Control in a New Migrant Gateway, Jason Pribilsky
9 Local Authority Responses to Immigrants: The German Case, Barbara Schmitter Heisler
10 Urban Migrants and the Claims of Citizenship in Postcolonial Africa, Dickson Eyoh
Contributors
Index