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9780871541239

Immigration and Opportunity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780871541239

  • ISBN10:

    0871541238

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-12-01
  • Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
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Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Immigration and Its Relation to Race and Ethnicity in the United States 1(28)
Frank D. Bean
Stephanie Bell-Rose
Part I Spatial and Occupational Structure and Labor Markets 29(112)
Immigration, Spatial and Economic Change, and African American Employment
31(33)
Frank D. Bean
Jennifer Van Hook
Mark A. Fossett
Mexican Immigration, Occupational Niches, and Labor-Market Competition: Evidence from Los Angeles, Chicago, and Atlanta, 1970 to 1990
64(42)
Michael J. Rosenfeld
Marta Tienda
Ethnic Concentrations and Labor-Market Opportunities
106(35)
Franklin D. Wilson
Part II Entrepreneurship, Social Networks, and Labor Markets 141(120)
Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress in the 1990s: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrants and African Americans
143(29)
Alejandro Portes
Min Zhou
Minority Niches and Immigrant Enclaves in New York and Los Angeles: Trends and Impacts
172(22)
John R. Logan
Richard D. Alba
West Indians and African Americans at Work: Structural Differences and Cultural Stereotypes
194(34)
Mary C. Waters
Network, Bureaucracy, and Exclusion: Recruitment and Selection in an Immigrant Metropolis
228(33)
Roger Waldinger
Part III Migration, Labor Markets, and Population Change 261(154)
Newly Emerging Hispanic Communities in the United States: A Spatial Analysis of Settlement Patterns, In-Migration Fields, and Social Receptivity
263(48)
James H. Johnson Jr.
Karen D. Johnson-Webb
Walter C. Farrell Jr.
New Black Migration Patterns in the United States: Are They Affected by Recent Immigration?
311(34)
William H. Frey
The Impact of Immigration on Residential Segregation
345(28)
Michael J. White
Jennifer E. Glick
How Immigration and Intermarriage Affect the Racial and Ethnic Composition of the U. S. Population
373(42)
Barry Edmonston
Jeffrey S. Passel
Index 415

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