Ernesto Castaneda is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the American University in Washington, DC.
"Based on extensive fieldwork in three immigrant-receiving cities,
this book provides a rich first-hand look at how immigrants adapt
and react to different contexts of reception and how these contexts
affect long-term outcomes for their foreign-origin populations. A
valuable and original contribution to the study of immigration and
ethnicity." -- Alejandro Portes * Princeton University *
"This brilliant transnational ethnography illuminates how
immigrants constantly negotiate their host communities and their
native ones. An astounding fourteen years of painstaking fieldwork
provide a one-of-a-kind look at the lives of undocumented and
documented immigrants within international, national, and community
contexts. This social science masterpiece provides a definitive
analysis on what must be done to improve the integration process
for vulnerable immigrant populations." -- Victor M. Rios *
University of California, Santa Barbara *
"A Place to Call Home deepens our knowledge of how place
matters in shaping immigrant integration. This book is an important
contribution to the study of immigration and cities and leads to
more interesting questions...The insights uncovered by this work
have important implications for designing better policy for
welcoming immigrants into cities."--Jackelyn Hwang, American
Journal of Sociology
"[Castaneda] develops a rich dialogue between prior research,
survey respondents, and ethnographic insights for each city. A
Place to Call Home will make an appealing addition to undergraduate
or graduate courses in sociology, politics, immigration,
citizenship, religion, and ethnic studies."-- Stephen P. Ruszczyk,
Sociological Forum
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