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Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities: Renegotiating the City

New Book Published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press Explores the Complex Outcomes of Contemporary Urban Migration

WASHINGTON—Woodrow Wilson Center Press has published a new book, Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities: Renegotiating the City, edited by Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble, and Allison M. Garland. It is copublished with the Johns Hopkins University Press.

In nations across the globe, immigration policies have abandoned strategies of multiculturalism in favor of a "play the game by our rules or leave" mentality. Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities shows how immigrants negotiate with longtime residents over economic, political, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. Host communities are neither as static, nor migrants as passive, as assimilationist policies would suggest.

Drawing on anthropology, political science, sociology, and geography, and focusing on such diverse cities as Washington, D.C., Rome, Los Angeles, Johannesburg, Munich, and Dallas, the contributors to this volume challenge both policy makers and academic analysts to reframe their discussions of urban migration, and to recognize the contemporary immigrant city as the dynamic, constantly shifting form of social organization it has become.

"The literature on urbanization is vast but I do not know of any works that focus on the city as the outcome of negotiating processes. In addition, this volume takes a comparative perspective providing examples from various parts of the world. It is a highly innovative and original contribution."
—Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Princeton University

Lisa M. Hanley, former project associate with the Woodrow Wilson Center's Comparative Urban Studies Project, is now a PhD candidate in city and regional planning at Cornell University. Blair A. Ruble is director of the Comparative Urban Studies Project (and of the Center's Kennan Institute), and the author of several books, most recently Creating Diversity Capital: Transnational Migrants in Montreal, Washington, and Kyiv. Allison M. Garland is the current project associate with the Comparative Urban Studies Project.

Immigration and Integration in Urban Communities is distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, www.press.jhu.edu or telephone 1-800-537-5487. The price is $55.00 for hardcover.

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