Immigration and Categorical Inequality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity [Paperback]

Immigration and Categorical Inequality explains the general processes of migration, the categorization of newcomers in urban areas as racial or ethnic others, and the mechanisms that perpetuate inequality among groups. Inspired by the pioneering work of Charles Tilly on chain migration, transnational communities, trust networks, and categorical inequality, renowned migration scholars apply Tillys theoretical concepts using empirical data gathered in different historical periods and geographical areas ranging from New York to Tokyo and from Barcelona to Nepal. The contributors of this volume demonstrate the ways in which social boundary mechanisms produce relational processes of durable categorical inequality. This understanding is an important step to stop treating differences between certain groups as natural and unchangeable. This volume will be valuable for scholars, students, and the public in general interested in understanding the periodic rise of nativism in the United States and elsewhere.

1. Understanding Inequality, Migration, Race, and Ethnicity from a Relational Perspective  Ernesto Casta?eda
2. Migration and Categorical Inequality  Douglas Massey
3. Immigration or Citizenship? Two Sides of One Social History  Josiah McC. Heyman
4. Stigmatizing Immigrant Day Labor: Boundary-Making and the Built Environment in Long Island, New York  Ernesto Casta?eda and Kevin R. Beck
5. Migration-Trust Networks: Unveiling the Social Networks of International Migration -- Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal
6. Ethnic Weddings: Reinventing the Nation in Exile  Randa Serhan
7. Trust Networks and Durable Inequality among Korean Immigrants in Japan  Hwaji Shin &l“Ë