Title New York and Amsterdam : immigration and the new urban landscape / edited by Nancy Foner, Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Rogier van Reekum

Published New York : New York University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction New York and Amsterdam : immigration and the new urban landscape / Jan Rath, Nancy Foner, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Rogier van Reekum -- How has the immigrant past shaped the immigrant present in New York city and Amsterdam? -- Immigration history and the remaking of New York / Nancy Foner -- To Amsterdam : migrations past and present / Leo Lucassen -- What difference does the urban economy make to immigrant incorporation? -- Immigrants in New York City's economy : a portrait in full living color / David Dyssegaard Kallick -- From Amsterdamned to I Amsterdam : the Amsterdam economy and its impact on the labor market position of migrants, 1980-2010 / Robert C. Kloosterman -- Is Islam in Amsterdam like race in New York city? -- Nativism, racism, and immigration in New York City / Mary C. Waters -- Governing through religion in Amsterdam : the stigmatization of ethnic cultures and the uses of Islam / Justus Uitermark, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Jan Rath -- How are immigrants entering the precincts of power in New York City and Amsterdam? -- The rise of immigrant influence in New York City politics / John Mollenkopf -- Immigrant political engagement and incorporation in Amsterdam / Floris Vermeulen, Laure Michon, and Jean Tillie -- How are the children of immigrants shaped by and also changing New York City's and Amsterdam's cultural life? -- Immigrants, the arts, and the "second-generation advantage" in New York / Philip Kasinitz -- Immigrant youths' contribution to urban culture in Amsterdam / Christine Delhaye, Sawitri Saharso, and Victor van de Ven -- About the contributors -- Index Summary Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam, which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have populations that are more than a third foreign-born. These cities have had to deal with the challenge of incorporating hundreds of thousands of immigrants whose cultures, languages, religions, and racial backgrounds differ dramatically from those of many long-established residents. New York and Amsterdam brings together a distinguished and interdisciplinary group of American and Dutch scholars to examine Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York Immigrants -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam Cultural pluralism -- New York (State) -- New York Cultural pluralism -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Cultural pluralism Emigration and immigration Immigrants SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration Amsterdam (Netherlands) -- Emigration and immigration Subject Netherlands -- Amsterdam New York (State) -- New York New York (stad) Amsterdam (stad) Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book Author Foner, Nancy, 1945- editor LC no. 2013028294 ISBN 9780814738221 0814738222 0814737978 9780814737972

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