"Through case studies of immigrant gateway metro areas, this book examines evolving immigrant integration and receptivity processes in established and previously overlooked regions in the United States, and provides a resource to contextualize ongoing changes in new destination metropolitan regions"--
Despite the velocity and scale of the cumulative changes of immigrant integration and receptivity infrastructures in fast growing regions of the United States, less research has focused on the new and evolving experiences in these regions in recent years. Editors Paul N. McDaniel and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez and the contributors in Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States fill this gap through case studies of different types of immigrant gateway metro areas. They provide insight into how immigrant settlement, integration, and receptivity processes and practices within each metro area have continued to evolve beyond the nascent experiences documented in the early 2000s. This interdisciplinary volume examines ongoing processes in not only well-established immigrant gateways, but also in previously overlooked regions. This book is a resource for researchers, students, and practitioners to contextualize the ongoing changes in new destination metropolitan regions in the United States and to learn from the challenges, opportunities, and best practices emerging from different metropolitan regional contexts.
Through case studies of immigrant gateway metro areas, this book examines evolving immigrant integration and receptivity processes in established and previously overlooked regions in the United States, and provides a resource to contextualize ongoing changes in new destination metropolitan regions.
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"The 'overlooked' metropolitan regions covered in Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States are particularly intriguing, as these are important sites of immigrant integration that prompt new questions and theoretical contributions. The editors of this interdisciplinary volume do a fine job weaving together key and emerging themes in immigration studies that is both smart and inviting to the reader." -- Emily Skop, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs "Assembling a diverse group of scholars and professionals, Paul N. McDaniel and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez have produced an impressive volume on the transformative settlements of and receptivity for immigrants within fourteen U.S. metropolitan areas. This book provides an in-depth knowledge on different kinds of immigrant gateways and is good for both course reading and scholarly references." -- Wei Li, Arizona State University
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Twenty-First Century Immigration Geography in the United
States, by Paul N. McDaniel and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez
Chapter 1: Detroit, Michigan: Revitalizing the Rust Belt by Welcoming
Immigrants in a Former Gateway, by Xi Huang and Alexis P. Tsoukalas
Chapter 2: Washington, DC: Reception and Integration of Immigrants and
Refugees in the National Capital Region, by Elizabeth Chacko
Chapter 3: Miami, Florida: Immigrant Settlement and Impact in the Gateway to
the Americas, by Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Eric Manley, and Nilofer K.
Bharwani
Chapter 4: Atlanta, Georgia: How Institutionalized Reception and
Representation of Refugees Changed Immigrant Receptivity in a Major-Emerging
Gateway, by Sarah Ryniker
Chapter 5: Charlotte, North Carolina: Multiple Scales of Receptivity in the
Queen City, by Paul N. McDaniel and Heather A. Smith
Chapter 6: Greensboro, North Carolina: Immigration and the Spatial Dynamics
of Neighborhood Change in the Piedmont Triad, by Nabeela Farhat and Selima
Sultana
Chapter 7: Nashville, Tennessee: Immigrant Integration and Rent Burden in the
Music City, by Madhuri Sharma and Mikhail Samarin
Chapter 8: Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota: The Success of Somali Elected
Officials in the Twin Cities, by Stefanie Chambers and Annika Davies
Chapter 9: Burlington, Vermont: Refugee Resettlement in the Green Mountain
State, by Pablo Bose
Chapter 10: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Welcoming Newcomers to the City of
Bridges During Times of Crisis, by Jennie L. Schulze
Chapter 11: Louisville, Kentucky: Adaptive Municipal Responses to a Growing
Immigrant Community in the Age of COVID-19, by Andrew Lim, Nan Wu, and Karen
Aho
Chapter 12: Birmingham, Alabama: Immigrant Integration, Place Branding, and
Geographies of Care in the Ridge and Valley, by Paul N. McDaniel
Chapter 13: Des Moines, Iowa: Refugee Resettlement Ecosystems and the Uneven
Geographies of Immigrant Incorporation in the Heartland, by Emily Frazier
Chapter 14: Reno, Nevada: I Just Feel Out of Place There - Punjabi-Sikh
Socio-Spatialities in the Biggest Little City in the World, by Heather L.
Benson and Kate A. Berry
Conclusion: Future Trajectories, by Paul N. McDaniel and Darlene Xiomara
Rodriguez
About the Contributors
Paul N. McDaniel is associate professor of geography in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Kennesaw State University.
Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez is associate professor of social work and human services at Kennesaw State University.
