New Immigrants in New York

Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her most recent book is In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration.

Wrap a subway map around this academic book and you have one of the most useful and up-to-date guides to New York City in years... As editor of this volume, Nancy Foner deserves credit for keeping her writers true to their assignments. The New York Times Book Review (of the first ed.) [T]he volume consists of uniformly outstanding studies of Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Jamaicans, West Africans, Dominicans and Mexicans... [R]ichly detailed and highly informative accounts of how immigrants are transforming New York and how the city is transforming them, in turn. -- Robert L. Boyd Urban Studies Overall this book makes a valuable contribution in showing not only how the new immigrants are faring in their encounter with New York City, but how the city itself is changing from the same encounter. American Anthropologist (of the first ed.) An outstanding collection... A rich ethnic feast in a single volume. The Times of the Americas (of the first ed.) In times of increasing racial tension, research that interprets changing patterns of racial and ethnic relations in the city of New York is certainly a welcome addition to the literature. American Journal of Sociology (of the first ed.) New Immigrants in New York is an excellent collection of essays on New York City's changing immigrants. -- David M. Reimers Journal of American Ethnic History A landmark New York immigrant study. The New York Sun

• Preface 1. Introduction: New Immigrants in a New New York, by Nancy Foner 2. Immigrant to New York: Policy Population and Patterns, by Ellen Percy Kraly and Ines Miyares 3. Immigrants, the Native Born and the Changing Division of Labor in New York City, by Richard Wright and Mark Ellis 4. Soviet Jews: The City's Newest Immigrants Transform New York Jewish Life, by Annelise Orleck 5. Chinese: Divergent Destinies in Immigrant New York, by Min Zhou 6. Koreans: An "Institutionally Complete" Community in New York, by Pyong Gap Min 7. Jamaicans: Balancing Race and Ethnicity, by Milton Vickerman 8. West Africans: Trading Places in New York, by Paul Stoller 9. Dominicans: Transnational Identities and Local Politics, by Patricia R. Pessar and Pamela M. Graham 10. Mexicans: Social, Educational, Economic, and Political Problems and Prospects in New York, by Robert Smith About the Contributors Index