Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-520-22850-4
Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 481 g

This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foner, Nancy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction. West Indian Migration to New York: An Overview
Nancy Foner

PART I • GENDER, WORK, AND RESIDENCE

1. Early-Twentieth-Century Caribbean Women: Migration and Social Networks in New York City
Irma Watkins-Owens /
2. Where New York’s West Indians Work
Suzanne Model

3. West Indians and the Residential Landscape of New York
Kyle D. Crowder and Lucky M. Tedrow

PART II • TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

4. Transnational Social Relations and the Politics of National Identity: An Eastern Caribbean Case Study
Linda Basch

5. New York as a Locality in a Global Family Network
Karen Fog Olwig

PART III • RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE SECOND GENERATION

6. “Black Like Who?” Afro-Caribbean Immigrants, African Americans, and the Politics of Group Identity
Reuel Rogers

7. Growing Up West Indian and African American: Gender and Class Differences in the Second Generation
Mary C. Waters

8. Experiencing Success: Structuring the Perception of Opportunities for West Indians
Vilna F. Bashi Bobb and Averil Y. Clarke

9. Tweaking a Monolith: The West Indian Immigrant Encounter with “Blackness”
Milton Vickerman

Conclusion. Invisible No More?
West Indian Americans in the Social Scientific Imagination
Philip Kasinitz

REFERENCES

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Foner is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Purchase. She is the author of From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (2000) and The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home (1994), among others. She is the editor of New Immigrants in New York (1987) and coeditor, with Rubén Rumbaut and Steven Gold, of Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2000).