New York and Amsterdam [electronic resource] : immigration and the new urban landscape / edited by Nancy Foner, Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Rogier van Reekum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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