Deflecting Immigration

by Light, Ivan

• ISBN13: 9780871545381
• ISBN10: 0871545381
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Summary

"As international travel became cheaper and national economies grew more connected over the past thirty years, millions of poor people from the Third World emigrated to richer countries. A tenth of the population of Mexico relocated to the United States between 1980 and 2000. Globalization theorists claimed that reception cities could do nothing about this trend, since nations make immigration policy, not cities. In Deflecting Immigration, sociologist Ivan Light shows how Los Angeles reduced the sustained, high-volume influx of poor Latinos who settled there by deflecting a portion of the migration to other cities in the United States. In this manner, Los Angeles tamed globalization's local impact, and helped to nationalize what had been a regional immigration issue."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Ivan Light is professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

About the Author	ix
Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Globalization and Migration Networks	1	(22)
Regional Dispersion of Mexicans	23	(25)
Is Migration Still Demand-Driven?	48	(12)
Hard Times in the Barrios	60	(21)
How the Garment Industry Expanded	81	(15)
Why the Garment Industry Contracted	96	(17)
Asian Place Entrepreneurs	113	(16)
Deflecting Latinos from Suburbs	129	(21)
Racism or Poverty Intolerance?	150	(7)
Sequential Absorption and Deflection	157	(15)
Appendix	172	(3)
Notes	175	(30)
References	205	(28)
Index	233