Forthcoming 2008 Book
Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities
Edited by Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short
Published by Syracuse University Press, Spring 2008
Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before. Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries but cities. This remarkable collection examines contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. The book focuses not only on cities with long-established diverse populations, such as New York, Toronto, and Sydney, but also on less known established gateway cities such as Birmingham (UK) and Amsterdam and the emerging gateways of Johannesburg, Washington, D.C., Singapore and Dublin. The essays gathered here provide a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration driven by income differentials, social networks, and various state policies that recruit skilled and unskilled laborers. Gateway cities vary in form and function but many are hyperdiverse, globally linked through transnational networks, and often increasingly segregated spaces. Offering penetrating analysis by the leading scholars in the field, Migrants to the Metropolis redirects the global narrative surrounding migration away from states and borders and into cities, where the vast majority of economic migrants settle.
Marie Price is associate professor of geography and international affairs at the George Washington University. She is coauthor of Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment, and Development.
Lisa Benton-Short is associate professor of geography at the George Washington University. She has published several books, including Cities and Nature and The Presidio: From Army Post to National Park.
Previous Publications
Benton-Short, Lisa and Marie D. Price. 2007. “Immigrants and World Cities: From the Hyper-Diverse to the Bypassed.” GeoJournal 68: 103-117.
Benton-Short, Lisa, Marie D. Price, and Samantha Friedman. 2005. “Globalization from Below: The Ranking of Global Immigrant Cities.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29.4, 945-959.
Benton-Short, Lisa, Marie D. Price, and Samantha Friedman. 2004. “A Global Perspective on the Connections between Immigration and World Cities.” The GW Center for the Study of Globalization Occasional Paper Series. 34 pp.
Price, Marie, I. Cheung, S. Friedman, and A. Singer. 2005. “The World Settles In: Washington, DC, As an Immigrant Gateway.” Urban Geography 26.1, 61-83.