Strangers at the Gates

Roger Waldinger is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is coauthor of How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the Social Organization of Labor (California, forthcoming), author of Still the Promised City? New Immigrants and African Americans in Post-Industrial New York (1996), which won the Robert Park Award of the American Sociological Association, and author of several other publications.

• List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1. Strangers at the Gates Roger Waldinger2. New Immigrants in Urban America Roger Waldinger and Jennifer Lee3. Up from Poverty? “Race,” Immigration, and the Fate of Low-Skilled Workers Roger Waldinger4. A Tale of Five Cities? Trends in Immigrant and Native-Born Wages Mark Ellis5. The Geography of Immigrant Poverty: Selective Evidence of an Immigrant Underclass William A. V. Clark6. On the Back of Blacks? Immigrants and the Fortunes of African Americans Nelson Lim7. The Immigrant Niche: Pervasive, Persistent, Diverse Roger Waldinger and Claudia Der-Martirosian8. Progress, Decline, Stagnation? The New Second Generation Comes of Age Min Zhou9. Conclusion:Immigration and the Remaking of Urban America Roger WaldingerNotes on ContributorsIndex

"As an admirable successor to Ethnic Los Angeles, this work examines the challenges confronting immigrant workers in urban areas. Strangers at the Gates should be of great interest to scholars and non-scholars interested in contemporary immigration and the American future." - Richard Alba, author of Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America; "Strangers at the Gates brings new evidence and theorizing to central issues in the sociology of immigrant and ethnic life. An excellent educational resource, informing readers, while simultaneously training them to carry out sophisticated comparative social science research, this well-written work will be required reading in immigration, stratification, ethnicity, race relations, urban studies, social geography, social policy, intro to sociology, and demography." - Steve Gold, coauthor of Ethnic Economies