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Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami : Immigration and the Rise of a Global City / Elena Saboga, Sallie Hughes, Elizabeth M. Aranda.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Latino/as: Exploring Diversity and ChangePublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (367 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781626373815
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 975.9381
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Immigration in the Age of Global Insecurity -- 2 The Contexts of Departure -- 3 The Context of Reception -- 4 Inequalities and Perceptions of Social Mobility -- 5 Politics, Membership, and Representation -- 6 Race, Discrimination, and Ethnic Rivalries -- 7 Immigrant Emotions and Strategies of Co-Presence -- 8 Translocal Placemaking and Belonging -- 9 The Security of Home in a Global Era -- References -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: With more than a million immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, Miami, Florida, boasts the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any US city. Charting the rise of Miami as a global city, Elizabeth Aranda, Sallie Hughes, and Elena Sabogal provide a panoramic study of the changing dynamics of the immigration experience. The authors move easily between an analysis of global currents and personal narratives, examining the many factors that shape the decision to emigrate and the challenges faced in making a new home. Offering a wealth of new insights, their work demonstrates why Miami is such an exceptional laboratory for studying the social forces and local effects of globalization on the ground.     
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781626373815

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Immigration in the Age of Global Insecurity -- 2 The Contexts of Departure -- 3 The Context of Reception -- 4 Inequalities and Perceptions of Social Mobility -- 5 Politics, Membership, and Representation -- 6 Race, Discrimination, and Ethnic Rivalries -- 7 Immigrant Emotions and Strategies of Co-Presence -- 8 Translocal Placemaking and Belonging -- 9 The Security of Home in a Global Era -- References -- Index -- About the Book

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With more than a million immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, Miami, Florida, boasts the highest proportion of foreign-born residents of any US city. Charting the rise of Miami as a global city, Elizabeth Aranda, Sallie Hughes, and Elena Sabogal provide a panoramic study of the changing dynamics of the immigration experience. The authors move easily between an analysis of global currents and personal narratives, examining the many factors that shape the decision to emigrate and the challenges faced in making a new home. Offering a wealth of new insights, their work demonstrates why Miami is such an exceptional laboratory for studying the social forces and local effects of globalization on the ground.     

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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