Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration
John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor
Abstract
This book represents one of the first systematic comparative studies of immigrant incorporation at the metropolitan level. It considers immigrant reception in seven different metro areas, and the book's analysis stresses the differences in capacity and response between central cities, down-at-the-heels suburbs, and outer metropolitan areas, as well as across metro areas. A key feature of case studies in the book is their inclusion of not only traditional receiving areas (New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles) but also newer ones (Charlotte, Phoenix, San José, and California's “Inland Empire”). An ... More
This book represents one of the first systematic comparative studies of immigrant incorporation at the metropolitan level. It considers immigrant reception in seven different metro areas, and the book's analysis stresses the differences in capacity and response between central cities, down-at-the-heels suburbs, and outer metropolitan areas, as well as across metro areas. A key feature of case studies in the book is their inclusion of not only traditional receiving areas (New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles) but also newer ones (Charlotte, Phoenix, San José, and California's “Inland Empire”). Another innovative aspect is that the book links to the new literature on regional governance, contributes to emerging research on spatial variations within metropolitan areas, and highlights points of intersection with the longer-term processes of immigrant integration.
Keywords:
immigrant incorporation,
immigrant reception,
regional governance,
metropolitan areas,
immigrant integration
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781501702662 |
| Published to Cornell Scholarship Online: January 2017 |
DOI:10.7591/cornell/9781501702662.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
John Mollenkopf, editor
City University of New York
Manuel Pastor, editor
University of Southern California
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