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Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and
emerging receiving nations. This worldwide boom has profoundly
altered urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities
and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity.
Examining the essential role of space in assisting and modifying
ethnic business activity, this book considers how ethnic economies
are reshaping the urban landscape in the United States, Britain,
Australia, Canada, Germany, and Italy. Each chapter explores the
significance of urban space and local context in the development of
an ethnic economy and how, in turn, ethnic economies have helped to
recreate urban neighborhoods. With its international scope and rich
case studies, this book will be invaluable for scholars and
students alike in the fields of ethnic studies, urban studies,
economic development, geography, and sociology.
Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and
emerging receiving nations. This worldwide boom has profoundly
altered urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities
and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity.
Examining the essential role of space in assisting and modifying
ethnic business activity, this book considers how ethnic economies
are reshaping the urban landscape in the United States, Britain,
Australia, Canada, Germany, and Italy. Each chapter explores the
significance of urban space and local context in the development of
an ethnic economy and how, in turn, ethnic economies have helped to
recreate urban neighborhoods. With its international scope and rich
case studies, this book will be invaluable for scholars and
students alike in the fields of ethnic studies, urban studies,
economic development, geography, and sociology.
Ethnic diversity has marked the United States from its inception,
and it is impossible to separate ethnicity from an understanding of
the United States as a country and "Americans" as a people. Since
the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the United States has
experienced watershed transformations in its social, cultural, and
ethnic geographies. Considering the impact of these wide-ranging
changes, this unique text examines the experiences of a range of
ethnic groups in both historical and contemporary context. It
begins by laying out a comprehensive conceptual framework that
integrates immigration theory; globalization; transnational
community formation; and urban, cultural, and economic geography.
The contributors then present a rich set of case studies of the key
Latin American, Asian American, and Middle Eastern communities
comprising the vast majority of newer immigrants. Each case offers
a brief historical overview of the group's immigration experience
and settlement patterns and discusses its contemporary
socioeconomic dynamics. All these communities have transformed-and
been transformed by-the places in which they have settled.
Exploring these changing communities, places, and landscapes, this
book offers a nuanced understanding of the evolution of America's
contemporary ethnic geographies.
The booming 1990s saw a new demographic pattern emerging in the
United States the shift of immigrants toward smaller towns and
metropolitan areas in ethnically homogenous (or traditionally
bicultural) areas. These places offer growing, specialized
economies in need of unskilled or semi-skilled (and occasionally
skilled) labor; they also offer, for some immigrants, a favorable
physical and social climate. Immigrants Outside Megalopolis
documents this trend with case studies including Hmong in
Wisconsin, Iranians in Iowa, Mexicans in Kansas and Colorado,
Vietnamese in coastal Louisiana, Mexicans in North Carolina and
south Texas, Cubans in Arizona, Bosnians in upstate New York, Asian
Indians in north Texas, and Ukranians and Russians in the
Willamette Valley of Oregon. Truly, this process is resulting in a
cultural transformation of the U.S. heartland. The implantation of
new features on the cultural landscape (businesses, homes,
churches, schools, possessions, and the peoples themselves) is
giving many Americans a world geography lesson at a time when
increased world understanding is something the country cannot do
without. This geography lesson comes at a cost, however: the
difficult process of social adjustment, playing out on a daily
basis between immigrant and host populations, which remains largely
unresolved. This process is an important focus of Jones's book."
Far East, Down South: Asians in the American South offers a
collection of ten insightful essays that illuminate the
little-known history and increasing presence of Asian immigrants in
the American southeast. In sharp contrast to the "melting pot"
reputation of the United States, the American South-with its
history of slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement-has
been perceived in stark and simplistic demographic terms. In Far
East, Down South, editors Raymond A. Mohl, John E. Van Sant, and
Chizuru Saeki provide a collection of essential essays that
restores and explores an overlooked part of the South's story-that
of Asian immigration to the region. These essays form a
comprehensive overview of key episodes and issues in the history of
Asian immigrants to the South. During Reconstruction, southern
entrepreneurs experimented with the replacement of slave labor with
Chinese workers. As in the West, Chinese laborers played a role in
the development of railroads. Japanese farmers also played a more
widespread role than is usually believed. Filipino sailors
recruited by the US Navy in the early decades of the twentieth
century often settled with their families in the vicinity of naval
ports such as Corpus Christi, Biloxi, and Pensacola. Internment
camps brought Japanese Americans to Arkansas. Marriages between
American servicemen and Japanese, Korean, Filipina, Vietnamese, and
nationals in other theaters of war created many thousands of
blended families in the South. In recent decades, the South is the
destination of internal immigration as Asian Americans spread out
from immigrant enclaves in West Coast and Northeast urban areas.
Taken together, the book's essays document numerous fascinating
themes: the historic presence of Asians in the South dating back to
the mid-nineteenth century; the sources of numerous waves of
contemporary Asian immigration to the South; and the steady spread
of Asians out from the coastal port cities. Far East, Down South
adds a vital new dimension to popular understanding of southern
history.
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