| Title |
Migrants to the metropolis : the rise of immigrant gateway cities / edited by Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| OCLC |
184829335 |
| ISBN |
9780815631613 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0815631618 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780815631866 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0815631863 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Publisher |
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008. |
| Description |
xvii, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Emigration and immigration -- Congresses.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Cities and towns -- Congresses.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-424) and index. |
| Contents |
Migrants to the metropolis : the rise of immigrant gateway cites, an introduction / Lisa Benton-Short and Marie Price -- Urban immigrant gateways in a globalizing world / Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short -- New York City : America's classic immigrant gateway / Nancy Foner -- Sydney : the globalization of an established immigrant gateway / Graeme Hugo -- DiverCity Toronto : Canada's premier gateway city / Lucia Lo -- The non- "global city" of Birmingham, UK : a gateway through time / Cheryl McEwan, Jane Pollard, and Nick Henry -- Amsterdam: a multicultural gateway? / Annemarie Bodaar -- Gateway Singapore : immigration policies, differential (non)incorporation, and identity politics / Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Natalie Yap -- Washington, D.C. : from biracial city to multiethnic gateway / Elizabeth Chacko -- Dublin : an emerging gateway / Mary Gilmartin -- Mean streets : Johannesburg as an emergent gateway / Jonathan Crush -- In the margins of Riyadh : Indonesian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia / Rachel Silvey -- Immigrants and natives in Tel Aviv : what's the difference? / David Bartram -- Keeping the gateway shut : regulating global city-ness in Seoul / Yeong-Hyun Kim -- São Paulo : historic immigrant gateway to contemporary emigrant outpost / Emily Skop and Sarah Zell. |
| General note |
Papers originally presented at a workshop held at George Washington University in January 2006. |
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