MICHEL S. LAGUERRE teaches Anthropology and Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published several books, including American Odyssey, Urban Poverty in the Caribbean, The Military and Society in Haiti, The Informal City, Minoritized Space, and The Global Chronopolis: Diasporic Implosion in American Society.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: 'Little Americas' The Global Ethnopolis Chinatown: The Ethnopole as an Informal Capital City Japantown: The Deglobalization of an Ethnopole Manilatown: Global Exclusion and Global Margins The Ethnopole as a Global City The Global Space of the Ethnopole The Global Ethnopole in the Global City Bibliography Index