Global Philadelphia : immigrant communities old and new /
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010. |
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| Description: | x, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philadelphia voices, Philadelphia visions Philadelphia voices, Philadelphia visions. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8050310 |
Table of Contents:
- Philadelphia's immigrant communities in historical perspective / Ayumi Takenaka and Mary Johnson Osirim
- pt. I. Community formation and intra- (and inter-) ethnic relations. 125 years of building Jewish immigrant communities in Philadelphia / Rakhmiel Peltz
- Mapping memories in stone : Italians and the transformation of a Philadelphia landscape / Joan Saverino
- Pan-Latino enclaves in Philadelphia and the formation of the Puerto Rican community / Victor Vazquez-Hernandez
- Opportunity, conflict, and communities in transition : historical and contemporary Chinese immigration to Philadelphia / Lena Sze
- pt. II. The role of institutions. German immigration to Philadelphia from the colonial period through the twentieth century / Birte Pfleger
- Changes in the behavior of immigrants : the Irish in Philadelphia / Noel J.J. Farley and Philip L. Kilbride
- Healthcare access for Mexican immigrants in South Philadelphia / Jennifer Atlas
- pt. III. Identity formation in a transnational context. Philadelphia's Haitian community : transnationalism and unity in the formation of identity / Garvey F. Lundy
- The new African diaspora : transnationalism and transformation in Philadelphia / Mary Johnson Osirim
- From Kerala to Philadelphia : the experiences of Malayalee, Hindu nurses in Philadelphia / Rasika Chakravarthy and Ajay Nair
- The other Asians in the other Philadelphia : understanding Cambodian experiences in neighborhoods, classrooms, and workplaces / Ellen Skilton-Sylvester and Keo Chea-Young.
