Author

Publication

2006-06-30 - Russell Sage Foundation Publications

Language

English

Word Count

61,500 words, Guess

Page Count

246 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

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  • Library of Congress Control Number2005057776
  • Goodreads3330209
  • LibraryThing3115143

Classifications

  • LCCJV6926.L67 L54 2006

Description

"As international travel became cheaper and national economies grew more connected over the past thirty years, millions of poor people from the Third World emigrated to richer countries. A tenth of the population of Mexico relocated to the United States between 1980 and 2000. Globalization theorists claimed that reception cities could do nothing about this trend, since nations make immigration policy, not cities. In Deflecting Immigration, sociologist Ivan Light shows how Los Angeles reduced the sustained, high-volume influx of poor Latinos who settled there by deflecting a portion of the migration to other cities in the United States. In this manner, Los Angeles tamed globalization's local impact, and helped to nationalize what had been a regional immigration issue."--BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los AngelesHardcoverRussell Sage Foundation Publications2006-06-30

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