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Migrants to the Metropolis
Marie PriceLisa Benton-Short
其他書名
The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities
出版Syracuse University Press, 2008-06-27
主題Social Science / Emigration & ImmigrationSocial Science / Sociology / UrbanSocial Science / Human Geography
ISBN08156318639780815631866
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=_Tb5HMB63xAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before.Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries but cities. This remarkable collection examines contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. The book focuses not only on cities with long-established diverse populations, such as New York, Toronto, and Sydney, but also on less known gateway cities, such as Birmingham (UK), Marseille, and the emerging gateways of Johannesburg, Washington, D.C., and Dublin. The essays gathered here provide a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration driven by income differentials, social networks, and various state policies that recruit skilled and unskilled laborers. Gateway cities vary in form and function but many are hyperdiverse, globally linked through transnational networks, and often increasingly segregated spaces. Offering penetrating analysis by the leading scholars in the field, Migrants to the Metropolis redirects the global narrative surrounding migration away from states and borders and into cities,where the vast majority of economic migrants settle.