Where We Live Now - Immigration and Race in the United States

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-25763-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

Where We Live Now explores the ways in which immigration is reshaping American neighborhoods. In his examination of residential segregation patterns, John Iceland addresses these questions: What evidence suggests that immigrants are assimilating residentially? Does the assimilation process change for immigrants of different racial and ethnic backgrounds? How has immigration affected the residential patterns of native-born blacks and whites? Drawing on census data and information from other ethnographic and quantitative studies, Iceland affirms that immigrants are becoming residentially assimilated in American metropolitan areas. While the future remains uncertain, the evidence provided in the book suggests that America's metropolitan areas are not splintering irrevocably into hostile, homogeneous, and ethnically based neighborhoods. Instead, Iceland's findings suggest a blurring of the American color line in the coming years and indicate that as we become more diverse, we may in some important respects become less segregated.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iceland, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction
2. Historical Overview and Theories of
Immigrant Spatial Incorporation
3. Immigration, Diversity, and Patterns of
Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation
4. Immigrant Residential Segregation
5. Hispanic Segregation and the Multiple Forms of
Residential Assimilation in Metropolitan America
6. Racial and Ethnic Diversity and Residential Segregation
7. Conclusion

Appendix A: Methods of Measuring Segregation and
Methodological Details of Analyses
Appendix B: Additional Tables and Figures
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Iceland is Professor of Sociology and Demography at Pennsylvania State University and the author of Poverty in America: A Handbook (UC Press).