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  • Immigrant America

    A Portrait

    by Prof. Alejandro Portes, Prof. Rubén G. Rumbaut ...
    This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its history, the principal theories seeking to account for its diverse origins, the main types of immigrants, and the various forms of immigrants' incorporation within American society.With the latest available data, Immigrant America ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents

    Edited by Alejandro Portes, Margarita Rodríguez ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution.The volume results from a comparative project that examines the interface between migration and the development of cities throughout different periods including current conditions. Nine strategic sites are examined: Three ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Emerging Global Cities

    Origin, Structure, and Significance

    by Alejandro Portes, Ariel C. Armony ...
    Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities,” whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in importance, emerging as global cities in their own right. The striking similarity of the skylines of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore is no coincidence: ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Emerging Global Cities

    Origin, Structure, and Significance

    by Alejandro Portes, Ariel C. Armony ...
    Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities,” whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in importance, emerging as global cities in their own right. The striking similarity of the skylines of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore is no coincidence: ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The End of Compassion

    Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation

    Edited by Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernandez-Kelly ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    This book brings together the most recent and the most comprehensive collection of articles on a population at risk: the children of immigrants in the United States, especially those children whose parents came to the country without legal authorization.The end of compassion and the shift to temporary migration to source the labour needs of the American economy have brought in their wake a series ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Caribbean Migrations

    The Legacies of Colonialism

    by Anke Birkenmaier, Anke Birkenmaier, Carlos Vargas-Ramos, Edward Chamberlain, Jorge Duany, Vivian Halloran, Yolanda Martinez-San Miguel, Daylet Domínguez, Devyn Spence Benson, Iraida H. López, Rafael Rojas0, Jane Bryce1, Rebecca Dirksen2, Kendy Vérilus3, Kiran C. Jayaram4, April J. Mayes5, Emily A. Maguire6, Alejandro Portes7, Jossianna Arroyo8 ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    2021 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Caribbean has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation. In this volume, an interdisciplinary group of scholars studies the Caribbean’s “unincorporated subjects,” and explores how against all odds, Caribbean artists, filmmakers, and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Global Edge

    Miami in the Twenty-First Century

    by Prof. Alejandro Portes, Ariel C. Armony ...
    Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to the highly successful City on the Edge, The Global Edge examines Miami in the context of globalization and scrutinizes its newfound place as a major international ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Spanish Legacies

    The Coming of Age of the Second Generation

    by Prof. Alejandro Portes ...
    Much like the United States, the countries of Western Europe have experienced massive immigration in the last three decades. Spain, in particular, has been transformed from an immigrant-exporting country to one receiving hundreds of thousands of new immigrants. Today, almost 13 percent of the country’s population is foreign-born. Spanish Legacies, written by internationally known experts on ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Urban Latin America

    The Political Condition from Above and Below

    by Alejandro Portes, John Walton ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Much research on the city in developing societies has focused mainly on one of three areas—planning, demography, or economics—and has emphasized either power elites or the masses, but not both. The published literature on Latin America has reflected these interests and has so far failed to provide a comprehensive view of Latin American urbanization. Urban Latin America is an attempt to integrate ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Institutions Count

    Their Role and Significance in Latin American Development

    Edited by Prof. Alejandro Portes, Lori D. Smith ...
    What leads to national progress? The growing consensus in the social sciences is that neither capital flows, nor the savings rate, nor diffuse values are the key, but that it lies in the quality of a nation’s institutions. This book is the first comparative study of how real institutions affect national development. It seeks to examine and deepen this insight through a systematic study of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • International Migration in Cuba

    Accumulation, Imperial Designs, and Transnational Social Fields

    by Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez ...
    Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. Between 1791 and 1810, for instance, many French people migrated to Cuba in the wake of the purchase of Louisiana by the United States and turmoil in Saint-Domingue. Between 1847 and 1874, Cuba was the main recipient of Chinese indentured laborers in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The State and the Grassroots

    Immigrant Transnational Organizations in Four Continents

    Edited by Alejandro Portes, Patricia Fernández-Kelly ...
    Whereas most of the literature on migration focuses on individuals and their families, this book studies the organizations created by immigrants to protect themselves in their receiving states. Comparing eighteen of these grassroots organizations formed across the world, from India to Colombia to Vietnam to the Congo, researchers from the United States, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Spain ... Read more

    $21.89 USD