Immigration is remaking the United States. In New York, Los   Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago, the multiethnic society of tomorrow   is already in place. Yet today's urban centers appear unlikely to provide   newcomers with the same opportunities their predecessors found at the turn of   the last century. Using the latest sources of information, this hard-hitting   volume of original essays looks at the nexus between urban realities and   immigrant destinies in these American cities. Strangers at the Gates tells the   real story of immigrants' prospects for success today and delineates the   conditions that will hinder or aid the newest Americans in their quest to get   ahead.     This book stresses the crucial importance of understanding that immigration   today is fundamentally urban and the equally important fact that immigrants are   now flocking to places where low-skilled workers--regardless of ethnic   background--are in particular trouble. These two themes are at the heart of this   book, which also covers a range of provocative topics, often with surprising   findings. Among the essayists, Nelson Lim enters the controversy over whether   and how immigrants affect the employment prospects for African Americans; Mark   Ellis investigates whether low immigrant wages depress other workers' salaries;   William A.V. Clark contends that immigrants seem to be experiencing downward   mobility; and Min Zhou asserts that trends among second-generation immigrants   are decidedly more optimistic.     These well-integrated and well-organized essays sit squarely at the intersection   of sociology and economics, and along the way they point out both the strengths   and the weaknesses of these two disciplines in understanding immigration.   Providing a theoretically and empirically comprehensive overview of the economic   fate of immigrants in major American cities, this book will make a major   contribution to debates over immigration and the American future.

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