Beyond the Gateway

Immigrants in a Changing America

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Susan F. Martin (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

312 Seiten

2005
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-0636-5 (ISBN)

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A small but growing number of immigrants today are moving into new settlement areas, such as Winchester, Va., Greensboro, N.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah, that lack a tradition of accepting newcomers. Just as the process is difficult and distressing for the immigrants, it is likewise a significant cause of stress for the regions in which they settle. Long homogeneous communities experience overnight changes in their populations and in the demands placed on schools, housing, law enforcement, social services, and other aspects of infrastructure. Institutions have not been well prepared to cope. Local governments have not had any significant experience with newcomers and nongovernmental organizations have been overburdened or simply nonexistent. There has been a substantial amount of discussion about these new settlement areas during the past decade, but relatively little systematic examination of the effects of immigration or the policy and programmatic responses to it. Beyond the Gateway is the first effort to bridge the gaps in communication not only between the immigrants and the institutions with which they interact, but also among diverse communities across the United States dealing with the same stresses but ignorant of each others' responses, whether successes or failures.

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak is director of research at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University and co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal International Migration. Susan F. Martin is executive director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) and Director of the Certificate Program in Refugee and Humanitarian Emergencies at Georgetown University.

Part 1 Part I - Introduction
Chapter 2 New Immigrant Communities and Integration
Chapter 3 The Growth and Population Characteristics of Immigrants and Minorities in America's New Settlement States
Part 4 Part II - Case Studies
Chapter 5 New Immigrant Communities in the North Carolina Piedmont Triad: Integration Issues and Challenges
Chapter 6 Black and White and the Other: International Immigration and Change in Metropolitan Atlanta
Chapter 7 Latinos, Africans, and Asians in the North Star State: Immigrant Communities in Minnesota
Chapter 8 From Temporary Picking to Permanent Plucking: Hispanic Newcomers, Integration, and Change in the Shenandoah Valley
Chapter 9 At the Gates of the Kingdom: Latino Immigrants in Utah, 1900-2003
Chapter 10 Newcomers in Rural America: Hispanic Immigrants in Rogers, Arkansas
Part 11 Part III - Best Practices
Chapter 12 Promising Practices for Immigrant Integration
Part 13 Part IV - Conclusion
Chapter 14 Challenges for the Future

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.6.2005
Reihe/Serie	Program in Migration and Refugee Studies
Co-Autor	Raleigh Bailey, Micah N. Bump, Katherine Fennelly
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 226 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7391-0636-8 / 0739106368
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-0636-5 / 9780739106365
Zustand	Neuware