From Immigration To Suburbia
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From Immigration To Suburbia
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Author : Thomas Keith Porterfield
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2008-02
From Immigration To Suburbia written by Thomas Keith Porterfield and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02 with categories.
Twenty First Century Gateways
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Author : Audrey Singer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2009-04-01
Twenty First Century Gateways written by Audrey Singer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with Political Science categories.
While federal action on immigration faces an uncertain future, states, cities and suburban municipalities craft their own responses to immigration. Twenty-First-Century Gateways, focuses on the fastest-growing immigrant populations in metropolitan areas with previously low levels of immigration—places such as Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dallas-Fort Worth, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, and Washington, D.C. These places are typical of the newest, largest immigrant gateways to America, characterized by post-WWII growth, recent burgeoning immigrant populations, and predominantly suburban settlement. More immigrants, both legal and undocumented, arrived in the United States during the 1990s than in any other decade on record. That growth has continued more slowly since the Great Recession; nonetheless the U.S. immigrant population has doubled since 1990. Many immigrants continued to move into traditional urban centers such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, but burgeoning numbers were attracted by the economic and housing opportunities of fast-growing metropolitan areas and their largely suburban settings. The pace of change in this new geography of immigration has presented many local areas with challenges—social, fiscal, and political. Edited by Audrey Singer, Susan W. Hardwick, and Caroline B. Brettell, Twenty-First-Century Gateways provides in-depth, comparative analysis of immigration trends and local policy responses in America's newest gateways. The case examples by a group of leading multidisciplinary immigration scholars explore the challenges of integrating newcomers in the specific gateways, as well as their impact on suburban infrastructure such as housing, transportation, schools, health care, economic development, and public safety. The changes and trends dissected in this book present a critically important understanding of the reshaping of the United States today and the future impact of
Resisting Change In Suburbia
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Author : James Zarsadiaz
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-10-18
Resisting Change In Suburbia written by James Zarsadiaz and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-18 with History categories.
Between the 1980s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, Asian Americans in Los Angeles moved toward becoming a racial majority in the communities of the East San Gabriel Valley. By the late 1990s, their "model minority" status resulted in greater influence in local culture, neighborhood politics, and policies regarding the use of suburban space. In the "country living" subdivisions, which featured symbols of Western agrarianism including horse trails, ranch fencing, and Spanish colonial architecture, white homeowners encouraged assimilation and enacted policies suppressing unwanted "changes"—that is, increased density and influence of Asian culture. While some Asian suburbanites challenged whites' concerns, many others did not. Rather, white critics found support from affluent Asian homeowners who also wished to protect their class privilege and suburbia's conservative Anglocentric milieu. In Resisting Change in Suburbia, award-winning historian James Zarsadiaz explains how myths of suburbia, the American West, and the American Dream informed regional planning, suburban design, and ideas about race and belonging.
Salvadorans In Suburbia
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Author : Sarah J. Mahler
language : en
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Release Date : 1995
Salvadorans In Suburbia written by Sarah J. Mahler and has been published by Allyn & Bacon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
This text is part of The New Immigrants Series edited by Nancy Foner. This groundbreaking new series fills the gap in knowledge relating to today's immigrants, how these groups are attempting to redefine their cultures while here, and their contribution to a new and changing America.
Trespassers
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Author : Willow Lung-Amam
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2017-05-16
Trespassers written by Willow Lung-Amam and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-16 with Social Science categories.
Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region’s booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and prompted an influx of immigration, especially among highly skilled and educated migrants from China, Taiwan, and India. At the same time, the response to these newcomers among long-time neighbors and city officials revealed complex attitudes in even the most well-heeled and diverse communities. Trespassers? takes an intimate look at the everyday life and politics inside Silicon Valley against a backdrop of these dramatic demographic shifts. At the broadest level, it raises questions about the rights of diverse populations to their own piece of the suburban American Dream. It follows one community over several decades as it transforms from a sleepy rural town to a global gateway and one of the nation's largest Asian American–majority cities. There, it highlights the passionate efforts of Asian Americans to make Silicon Valley their home by investing in local schools, neighborhoods, and shopping centers. It also provides a textured tale of the tensions that emerge over this suburb's changing environment. With vivid storytelling, Trespassers? uncovers suburbia as an increasingly important place for immigrants and minorities to register their claims for equality and inclusion.
Cosmopolitan Suburbs
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Author : Willow Lung Amam
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Cosmopolitan Suburbs written by Willow Lung Amam and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Within the last half century, the geography of race and immigration in the U.S. has shifted. While many white middle class residents are moving into revitalized central cities, the suburbs have become home to the majority of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the U.S. Fremont, California, which only 30 years ago was a prototypical white, middle class suburb, is now home to an Asian American majority, including many of Silicon Valley's highly educated and high-income engineers from China, Taiwan, and India. In a case study of Fremont, my dissertation looks at the changing material forms and uses of the built environment, and politics of space in suburbia amidst its rapid demographic changes. Using GIS mapping, archival analysis, participant observations, and in-depth interviews with 74 residents, city officials, planners, designers, and developers, my analysis centers on three spaces common to many high tech suburbs--McMansions, high-performing schools, and Asian malls. I look at the meaning of community and home as expressed by Asian immigrants in debates over residential teardowns and McMansions and the cultural politics of design guidelines and development standards used to regulate them. In a case study of Mission San Jose High, I then look at the value of high performing school districts to Asian immigrant families and how their educational priorities are reshaping neighborhood geographies of race and battles over school boundaries. And finally, I explore Asian malls' form, geography, and uses, and the politics of their regulation in Fremont. Together these investigations show that Asian immigrants have introduced new spatial imaginaries and practices, values, meanings, and sources of economic capital that are reshaping suburban form and use in the Silicon Valley. But I also show that suburbia's increasing diversity has upset its presumed social and spatial order, leading to a politics of backlash that is producing new spaces and modes of marginality, even among immigrants of means. Both city officials and established residents have consistently portrayed landscapes built by or for Asian immigrants as non-normative and subjected them to critique and new forms of regulation, while simultaneously reinforcing white middle class norms, meanings, and values through planning, design, and public policy. These spaces, however, have also served as sites of cultural contest and collective resistance that threaten to undermine the dominance of suburbia's assumed spatial norms. I argue that Asian immigrants' assertions for more inclusive, open, and diverse suburban spaces represents an emergent suburban spatial politics of difference aimed at bringing about new forms and norms of belonging, as well as new platforms for social and spatial justice. The dissertation contributes to the existing scholarship in suburban studies, urban planning, design, and cosmopolitan theory. It extends the suburban studies literature on the contributions of minorities and immigrants to making a diverse suburban landscape by looking at understudied place and groups--Asian Americans in high tech suburbs--and at the spatial landscape of suburbs as an important object of study. In a new American century defined by suburbanization and diversity, this case study also speaks to the ways that cities manage vast demographic changes, and the role of design, planning, development, and public policy in supporting social differences and justice, as well as reinforcing existing social hierarchies and inequalities. And finally, this study grounds discourses on emergent forms of cosmopolitanism citizenship within the everyday struggles of immigrants to make home in the Silicon Valley suburbs.
Suburban Sahibs
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Author : S. Mitra Kalita
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Suburban Sahibs written by S. Mitra Kalita and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Asian American families categories.
"This book sheds new light on the pursuit of the American dream for the estimated 1.7 million Indians living in the United States. Suburban Sahibs delves into how immigration has altered the American suburb, and how the suburb, in turn, has altered the immigrant." "America has long been a destination for newcomers seeking better lives. In recent years, immigration by South Asians to the United States has increased dramatically, doubling between the 1990 and 2000 censuses. Unlike most of the European immigrants of the last century, however, many South Asians are moving directly to the suburbs rather than settling in large cities." "S. Mitra Kalita focuses on three waves of modern-day immigration through the stories of three families: the Kotharis, Patels, and Sahibs. Readers learn why these families decided to leave India, experience the tensions they encountered upon their arrival in the U.S. and witness the realities of life here for South Asians."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Making Space
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Author : Melissa K. Byrnes
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2024
Making Space written by Melissa K. Byrnes and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
Melissa Byrnes explores the ways local communities in the French suburbs reacted to the growing presence of North African migrants in the decades after World War II and the decolonization of Algeria.
Beyond The City And The Bridge
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Author : Noriko Matsumoto
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-17
Beyond The City And The Bridge written by Noriko Matsumoto and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-17 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Author Award, Scholarly Non-fiction Winner of the Richard P. McCormick Prize from the New Jersey Historical Association Honorable Mention, 2019 American Sociological Association Book Award - Asia/Asian American Section In recent decades, the American suburbs have become an important site for immigrant settlement. Beyond the City and the Bridge presents a case study of Fort Lee, Bergen County, on the west side of the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan and New Jersey. Since the 1970s, successive waves of immigrants from East Asia have transformed this formerly white community into one of the most diverse suburbs in the greater New York region. Fort Lee today has one of the largest concentrations of East Asians of any suburb on the East Coast, with Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans forming distinct communities while influencing the structure and everyday life of the borough. Noriko Matsumoto explores the rise of this multiethnic suburb—the complex processes of assimilation and reproduction of ethnicities, the changing social relationships, and the conditions under which such transformations have occurred.
The New Noir
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Author : Orly Clerge
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2019-10-29
The New Noir written by Orly Clerge and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-29 with Social Science categories.
The expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York. In The New Noir, Orly Clerge explores the richly complex worlds of an extraordinary generation of Black middle class adults who have migrated from different corners of the African diaspora to suburbia. The Black middle class today consists of diverse groups whose ongoing cultural, political, and material ties to the American South and Global South shape their cultural interactions at work, in their suburban neighborhoods, and at their kitchen tables. Clerge compellingly analyzes the making of a new multinational Black middle class and how they create a spectrum of Black identities that help them carve out places of their own in a changing 21st-century global city. Paying particular attention to the largest Black ethnic groups in the country, Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians, Clerge’s ethnography draws on over 80 interviews with residents to examine the overlooked places where New York’s middle class resides in Queens and Long Island. This book reveals that region and nationality shape how the Black middle class negotiates the everyday politics of race and class.