Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries - Race, Ethnicity, And Immigration

Informationen zum Autor Caroline Brettell is Dedman Family Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. Klappentext The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 2 Race and Ethnicity: Categories, Labels, and the Construction of Identity Chapter 3 Violence, Migration and Becoming Igbo in Gustavus Vassa's Interesting Narrative Chapter 4 Undue Process: Racial Genealogies of Immigrant Detention Part 5 Race, Ethnicity, and Intergroup Relations Chapter 6 The Immigrant Experiences of Dominican and Mexican Women in the 1990s: Crossing Class, Racial and Gender Boundaries or Temporary Work Spaces in New York City Chapter 7 Ethnic Borders in American Muslim Communities Chapter 8 Black Ethnicity and Racial Community: African Americans and West Indian Immigrants in the United States Chapter 9 Appalachian Mestizaje: Race and Latino Immigration in Western North Carolina Part 10 Ethnicity as a Resource Chapter 11 Job-Hopping: Social Networks in the Global High-Tech Industry Chapter 12 Beyond the Ethnic Enclave: The Effect of Ethnic Solidarity and Market Opportunity on White, Korean, Mexican and Black Enterprise Chapter 13 Separately Together: Co-Ethnic Employment among Second Generation Immigrants in the Metropolitan New York Labor Market Chapter 14 Immigrant Selectivity, Ethnic Capital, and the Reproduction of Educational Inequalities across Borders

Product details

• Authors: Caroline B. Brettell, Caroline B. (EDT) Brettell
• Assisted by: Caroline B Brettell (Editor), Caroline B. Brettell (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2007
• EAN: 9780739115695
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1569-5
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General