Description
Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs presents the story of the Armenians of Glendale, California. Coming from Argentina, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Russia, Syria, and many other countries, this group is internally fragmented and often has limited experience with the American political system. Nonetheless, Glendale's Armenians have rapidly mobilized and remade an American suburban space in their own likeness.
In telling their story, Daniel Fittante expands our understanding of US political history. From the late nineteenth-century onward, Irish, Italian, Jewish, and several other immigrant populations in large American cities began changing the country's political reality. The author shows how Glendale's Armenians--as well as many other immigrants--are now changing the country's political reality within its dynamic, multiethnic suburbs. The processes look different in various suburban contexts, but the underlying narrative holds: immigrant populations converge on suburban areas and ambitious political actors develop careers by driving coethnics' political incorporation.
Author: Daniel Fittante
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 12/15/2023
Pages: 204
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9781501770326
ISBN10: 1501770322
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy | Immigration
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- Social Science | Human Geography
About the Author
Daniel Fittante is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Södertörn University. His research areas include political and urban sociology, diaspora studies, and immigration.