One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century

307 Pages·2013·3.367 MB·English

by  Nancy Foner

ne ut of Three
Immigrant New York in
the Twenty-First Century
Edited by
Nancy Foner
One Out of Three

One Out of Three
immigrant new york in the
twenty- first century
Edited by Nancy Foner
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One out of three : immigrant New York in the twenty-fi rst century /
edited by Nancy Foner.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-15936-4 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-15937-1
(pbk. : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-231-53513-7 (ebook)
1. Minorities—New York (State)—New York. 2. Immigrants—New York (State)—New York.
3. New York (N.Y.)—Social conditions. 4. New York (N.Y.)—Emigration and immigration.
5. New York (N.Y.)—Economic conditions. I. Foner, Nancy, 1945- II. Title.
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nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed
since the manuscript was prepared.
Earlier versions of some of these chapters originally appeared in New Immigrants in
New York: Completely Revised and Updated Edition (2001), edited by Nancy Foner.
© Columbia University Press.
One Out of Three
Contents
Ac know ledg ments vii
1. Introduction: Immigrants in New York City in the New Millennium
Nancy Foner 1
2. A Portrait of New York’s Immigrant Mélange
Arun Peter Lobo and Joseph J. Salvo 35
3. Immigration and Economic Growth in New York City
David Dyssegaard Kallick 64
4. Soviet Jews: The Continuing Russifi cation of Jewish New York
Annelise Orleck 90
5. Chinese: Diverse Origins and Destinies
Min Zhou 120
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6. Koreans: Changes in New York in the Twenty- First Century
Pyong Gap Min 148
7. Jamaicans: Balancing Race and Ethnicity
Milton Vickerman 176
8. Liberians: Struggles for Refugee Families
Bernadette Ludwig 200
9. Dominicans: Community, Culture, and Collective Identity
Silvio Torres- Saillant and Ramona Hernández 223
10. Mexicans: Civic Engagement, Education,
and Progress Achieved and Inhibited
Robert Courtney Smith 246
11. The Next Generation Emerges
Philip Kasinitz, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters 267
Contributors 283
Index 287
Ac know ledg ments
Many people have helped to make this book possible. I am grateful, above all,
to the authors of the chapters in this volume for their responsiveness and com-
mitment to the book, from the very start when it began to take shape to the end
of the publication pro cess.
Once again, it has been a great pleas ure to work with the editorial staff at
Columbia University Press. I would like to thank Philip Leventhal, editor at the
press, for his enthusiasm for the project, helpful advice, and for shepherding the
book through the review and editorial pro cess. I am also grateful to his editorial
assistants, Alison Alexanian and Whitney Johnson, for their help along the way.
Thanks, as well, to my husband, Peter Swerdloff, for his unfailing support;
my daughter, Alexis, a dyed- in- the- wool fourth-g eneration New Yorker; and my
mother, Anne Foner, who has always been there as a sounding board and source
of wise advice.
As some readers will note, this volume builds on two editions of an earlier
volume, New Immigrants in New York, but it is a very different book and, fi ttingly,
has a new title. The phrase “new immigrants,” in any case, no longer rings true
for many groups discussed in the pages that follow. Now, in the second de cade
of the twenty-fi rst century, the “new” immigration is not so new anymore. Many
groups featured in the chapters have been a signifi cant presence in New York
City for nearly half a century, and a large and growing second generation is
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coming of age. Together, immigrants and their U.S.-born children represent more
than one out of two New Yorkers— immigrants alone, as the title indicates, are
about one out of three or, to be precise, 37 percent. As for the book itself, it has
many new authors (Arun Peter Lobo and Joseph Salvo, David Dyssegaard Kal-
lick, Bernadette Ludwig, Silvio Torres-S aillant and Ramona Hernández, and
Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters). Those who had chapters
in the 2001 edition of New Immigrants in New York (Pyong Gap Min, Annelise
Orleck, Robert C. Smith, Milton Vickerman, and Min Zhou) have written very
different ones— in some cases with a completely new focus. My own introductory
chapter has been totally revamped to refl ect changes in the book, changes in the
nature and consequences of immigration in New York City, and developments
in my own thinking about immigration after many years of studying and writing
about it. A fi nal word of thanks, then, to the many immigration scholars in the
United States and Eur ope, too numerous to mention, who have been a source of
insights, ideas, and inspiration.