Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York


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Description

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.

Author: Nancy Foner
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/15/2001
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.03w x 0.91d
ISBN13: 9780520228504
ISBN10: 0520228502
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies

About the Author
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).