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Klappentext Leading authorities compare the situation of racial minorities in the post-industrial cities of Europe and North America. Zusammenfassung Leading authorities compare the situation of racial minorities in the post-industrial cities of Europe and North America. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: migration, the city and the urban dispossessed Malcolm Cross; Part I. Migration and Economic Restructuring: 1. Migration and the new international division of labour Robin Cohen; 2. Migrants and minorities in post-Keynesian capitalism: the German case Stephen Castles; 3. Deindustrialisation and racial minorities in the Great Lakes region, USA Richard Child Hill and Cynthia Negrey; 4. Black workers, recession and economic restructuring in the West Midlands Malcolm Cross; 5. Jobs for the girls: the productions of women's outerwear in the UK Annie Phizacklea; Part II. The City and the Underclass: 6. Urban concentration and segregation in Europe since 1945 Ceri Peach; 7. Urban disadvantage and racial minorities in the UK David Eversley; 8. Racial minorities in the London labour and housing markets: a longitudinal analysis, 1971-81 Chris Hamnett and Bill Randolph; 9. Native blacks, new immigrants and the post-industrial transformation in New York Roger Waldinger; 10. The new immigration and urban ethnicity in the United States Alisdair Rogers; 11. Urban industrial restructuring and minority problems in the US and Germany John D. Kasarda, Jürgen Friedrichs and Kay Ehlers; 12. The urban underclass and mismatch theory re-examined Norman Fainstein; References; Index.
