Immigrant Crossroads
Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York

PB: $42.95
EAN: 978-1-4399-1594-3
Publication: Jan 21
HC: $115.50
EAN: 978-1-4399-1593-6
Publication: Jan 21
Ebook: $42.95
EAN: 978-1-4399-1595-0
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392 pages
6 x 9
25 tables, 10 figs., 8 halftones, 4 maps
Highlights immigrant engagement in urban development, policy, and social movements
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Nearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies opportunities and challenges in shaping a multi-racial democracy.
The editors and contributors to Immigrant Crossroads examine the social, spatial, economic, and political dynamics that stem from this fast-growing urbanization. The interdisciplinary chapters examine residential patterns and neighborhood identities, immigrant incorporation and mobilizations, and community building and activism.
Essays combine qualitative and quantitative research methods to address globalization and the unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity as a result of international migration. Chapters on incorporation focus on immigrant participation and representation in electoral politics, and advocacy for immigrant inclusion in urban governance and service provision. A section of Immigrant Crossroads concerns placemaking, focusing on the production of neighborhood spaces and identities as well as immigrant activism and community development and control.
Based on engaged and robust analysis, Immigrant Crossroads highlights the dynamics of this urban gateway.
Contributors: Sofya Aptekar, Nazreen S. Bacchus, Sayu Bhojwani, Donovan Finn, Diana Tamashiro Folla, Kristen Hackett, David Dyssegaard Kallick, Arun Peter Lobo, Arianna Martinez, Lynn McCormick, Christopher Michael, Joseph J. Salvo, Alice Sardell, Samuel Stein, and the editors
Reviews
“ The editors of and contributors to Immigrant Crossroads have done us all a huge favor by putting together this excellent and comprehensive book on the most interesting county in the United States. With chapters covering demographics, party politics, health access, community organizing, and much more, the breadth of this work is impressive. Importantly, all of the chapters locate Queens in much larger frameworks, and therefore the book is not just about Queens but about the forces shaping how all urban places and spaces are constructed in a globalizing world.”—James DeFilippis, Professor of Urban Planning at Rutgers University
“ A book dedicated to Queens is long overdue, and like the borough itself, this rich, edited volume is hyperdiverse. It not only gives readers a sense of dramatic demographic changes in the borough over the past few decades but also shows the financialization of our real estate landscape and the ways in which new and second-generation immigrants have both perpetuated and resisted established models of political incorporation and machine politics. Immigrant Crossroads illustrates how Queens defies facile platitudes and instead embodies key contradictions of American policy. The borough is thriving not because of but despite American neoliberal economic policies, and in today's political landscape, electing racially and ethnically diverse politicians to office is no guarantee of substantive representation. This book thus shows how Queens’ most significant dynamics and current tensions are a distillation and microcosm of issues we should consider and confront nationwide.”—Celina Su, Marilyn J. Gittell Chair in Urban Studies at City University of New York Graduate Center and Brooklyn College
Table of Contents
Preface / Ron Hayduk, Francois Pierre-Louis Jr., and Michael Alan Krasner
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Immigrant Crossroads / Tarry Hum
Part I: Globalization Part II: Incorporation Part III: Placemaking
2. The Queens Economy: Where Global Meets Local / David Dyssegaard Kallick
3. The Restructuring of Manufacturing in Queens and Its Impact on Immigrant Workers / Lynn McCormick
4. Employee Ownership as an Immigrant Workforce Strategy / Christopher Michael
6. Advocacy for Immigrant Health: Language Access in New York Pharmacies / Alice Sardell
7. The More Things Change . . . : Machine Politics in Queens / Michael Alan Krasner and Ron Hayduk
8. The New Machine: Nonprofits and South Asian Political Incorporation / Sayu Bhojwani
9. How Would You Spend a Million Dollars? Immigrant Engagement in Participatory Budgeting / Ron Hayduk, Diana Tamashiro Folla, and Kristen Hackett
11. Flushing Meadows Land Grab: The Battle for the Heart of a Borough / Donovan Finn
12. The Politics of a “New Deal” for Roosevelt Avenue: Business Improvement Districts, Placemaking, and Community Resistance / Samuel Stein and Tarry Hum
13. Coalition Building in the Making of the Haitian Community in Queens: A Case Study of the Haitian American United for Progress / Francois Pierre-Louis Jr.
14. American Muslims: The Queens Experience / Nazreen S. Bacchus
Contributors
Index