Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents

Herausgeber: Portes, Alejandro; Rodríguez, Margarita

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and development of cities, including their physical, economic and cultural evolution. It was originally published as special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 685g
• ISBN-13: 9781032660035
• ISBN-10: 1032660031
• Artikelnr.: 69993552

Autorenporträt

Alejandro Portes is Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts and Sciences University of Miami and Howard Harrison and Gabrielle S. Beck Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), Princeton University, USA. He has extensively published on the subjects of urbanization and migration. Margarita Rodríguez is Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Miami, USA. Her publications include a book as a single author, three co-edited volumes, articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION Preface Cities and migration Part 1 - LATIN AMERICA BUENOS
AIRES 1. Buenos Aires: from successful city/nation-building to fragmented
amalgamation 2. Commentary: From global to regional? New realities of
international migration to Buenos Aires, Argentina MEXICO CITY 3. Migration
and peripheral urbanization: the case of the metropolitan zone of the
valley of Mexico 4. Commentary: What is a city but its people? SAO PAULO
5. Migration and urban development in São Paulo 6. Commentary: A city of
contradictions Part 2 - EUROPE BARCELONA 7. Destination Barcelona:
migration processes in a historical and contemporary perspective 8.
Commentary: Understanding the case of Barcelona from the "Spanish model" of
international migration LONDON 9. London: diversity and renewal over two
millennia 10. Commentary: Migrants are the city STOCKHOLM 11. Stockholm:
social mechanisms of migrants' emplacement in a segregated global city 12.
Commentary: Urban social mechanisms at work Part 3 - NORTH AMERICA LOS
ANGELES 13. The trajectory of the colour line in a US immigrant gateway:
hyperdiverse spatialization in Los Angeles 14. Commentary: Race, place, and
fate in the City of Angels MIAMI 15. Cross cultural urbanism: the case of
Miami 16. Commentary: Ethnic architecture and global cities NEW YORK CITY
17. Global commerce, immigration and diversity: a New York story 18.
Commentary: America's arrival city: how immigration made New York and how
immigrant exclusion almost destroyed it EPILOGUE From The Wealth of Nations
to The Global City (over two hundred years of insights on the city and
migration)