minorities

The Pilipinos in America: Macro/Micro Dimensions of Immigration and Integration

This book presents a comprehensive look at the Pilipino immigration experience to the United States. The Pilipinos in America tells who the immigrants are before they migrated, and why they migrated to the U.S. It does more than just examine...

Immigrants and Schooling: Mexicans in New York

How will the growing presence of Mexican school-age children affect public education?, is a question addressed in the book Immigrants and Schooling. The authors present a collection of essays exploring the migration and community backgrounds of Mexicans arriving to the...

Ethnic Business Enterprise: Korean Small Business in Atlanta

The primary purpose of Ethnic Business Enterprise is to explain the tendency of Korean immigrants toward small business and self-employment. The secondary purpose of this book is to look at various minority business theories in light of the Korean case....

A Directory of Italian American Associations in the Tri-State Area: Connecticut, Eastern New Jersey and New York

In this text building on two previous CMS directories, the Center for Migration Studies of New York decided to develop an up-to-date and comprehensive Directory of all Italian and Italian American Associations within the Italian Consular District of New York....

Chaldean Americans: Changing Conceptions of Ethnic Identity

Chaldean Americans is an analysis of a small but important ethnic minority. Particularly in the last 30 years of the twentieth century, Chaldeans are illustrative of the impact of the influx of the new immigrant wave which followed the change...

Caribbean Life in New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions

With a focus on sociocultural dimensions of Caribbean life in New York, this book addresses a topic that has been relatively neglected in the many recent (relative to the time of publication) studies of Caribbean immigrants. These studies have been...

A Bibliographic Guide to Materials on Greeks in the United States, 1890-1968

As part of the study of the “new immigration,” scholars have acknowledged, but little studied, the Greek immigration to the United States from 1890-1921. Two important factors that led to the neglect of this subject were linguistic inability and unavailability...

New Immigrants to Brooklyn and Queens: Policy Implications Especially with Regard to Housing

The article discusses migration patterns in New York City with emphasis on the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. It also examines the characteristics of the housing market in New York with regard to the issue of race and ethnicity as...

The Ethnic Factor in the Future of Inequality

The paper explores inequality, elitist vs. minority perspectives, and a pluralistic theory of ethnicity. It discusses the issues of culture and ethnicity within the framework of the relative positioning of different groups in society and the interactions among and between...