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Abstract / Summary

Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before.Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries but cities. This remarkable collection examines contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. The book focuses not only on cities with long-established diverse populations, such as New York, Toronto, and Sydney, but also on less known gateway cities, such as Birmingham (UK), Marseille, and the emerging gateways of Johannesburg, Washington, D.C., and Dublin.The essays gathered here provide a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration driven by income differentials, social networks, and various state policies that recruit skilled and unskilled laborers. Gateway cities vary in form and function but many are hyperdiverse, globally linked through transnational networks, and often increasingly segregated spaces. Offering penetrating analysis by the leading scholars in the field, Migrants to the Metropolis redirects the global narrative surrounding migration away from states and borders and into cities,where the vast majority of economic migrants settle.

Field of Interest

Global Issues

Author

Sarah Zell, Emily Skop, Yeong-Hyun Kim, David Bartram, Rachel Silvey, Jonathan Crush, fl. 2014, Mary Gilmartin, Elizabeth Chacko, Natalie Yap, Brenda Yeoh, Annemarie Bodaar, Nick Henry, Jane Pollard, Cheryl McEwan, Lucia Lo, Graeme Hugo, 1946-2015, Nancy Foner, 1945-, Marie Price, Lisa Benton-Short

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2008 Syracuse University

Content Type

Book

Duration

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Warning: Contains explicit content

No

Format

Text

Original Publication Date

2008

Page Count

448

Publication Year

2008

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Place Published / Released

Syracuse, NY

Subject

Global Issues, World History, Social Sciences, History, Individual and Groups Rights, Migration and Diaspora, Migration, Transnational, Border Events and Areas Context, Globalization, Urban population, Urban life, Cities, Migration, Immigrant populations, Immigration and emigration, Cultural diversity, Geography, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Migración y Diáspora, Migração e Diáspora, Dublin, Ireland, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Washington, DC, Washington, D.C., DC, Washington D.C., Singapur, Cingapura, New York City, NYC, City of New York, New York, New York, São Paulo, São Paulo State, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo State, Seoul, Soul-t'ukpyolsi, Tel-Aviv-Jaffa, Tel-Aviv District, Riyadh, Riyad Administrative Region, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Dublin, Leinster, District of Columbia, Singapore, Amsterdam, North Holland, Birmingham, England, Toronto, ON, Sydney, New South Wales, New York, NY, Sao Paulo, São Paulo State, Seoul, Seoul-si, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Series / Program

Space, Place and Society

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Migración y Diáspora, Migração e Diáspora, Dublin, Ireland, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland, Washington, DC, Washington, D.C., DC, Washington D.C., Singapur, Cingapura, New York City, NYC, City of New York, New York, New York, São Paulo, São Paulo State, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo State, Seoul, Soul-t'ukpyolsi