Migrants From The Promised Land

Author : Leah Platt Boustan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691202495

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Competition in the Promised Land by Leah Platt Boustan Pdf

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas. Traditionally, the Great Black Migration has been lauded as a path to general black economic progress. Leah Boustan challenges this view, arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. Boustan shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously, more than doubling their earnings by moving North. But these new arrivals competed with existing black workers, limiting black–white wage convergence in Northern labor markets and slowing black economic growth. Furthermore, many white households responded to the black migration by relocating to the suburbs. White flight was motivated not only by neighborhood racial change but also by the desire on the part of white residents to avoid participating in the local public services and fiscal obligations of increasingly diverse cities. Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods, Competition in the Promised Land revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society.

Author : Zvi Sobel
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1412828619

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Migrants from the Promised Land by Zvi Sobel Pdf

In December 1983, Israeli radio and television blitzed the nation with programming on "yerida "--emigration from Israel. So much attention has been given to emigration that the casual observer might think it is the central threat to Israeli society. Demographics show that it is not, but emotions continue to run high on the subject. In "Migrants from the Promised Land, "Zvi Sobel explores the reasons for emigration from contemporary Israel within the context of a far-ranging critical assessment of Israeli society and the Zionist enterprise. He asks why, in light of near devastating challenges to the survival of Israel, does emigration assume such overwhelming importance among both elites and masses. His analysis is based on intensive interviews with hundreds of people preparing to leave Israel and a thorough examination of all relevant demographics.

Author : Daniel G. Groody,Gioacchino Campese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0268203598

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A Promised Land, a Perilous Journey by Daniel G. Groody,Gioacchino Campese Pdf

The nineteen authors in this collection recognize that one characteristic of globalization is the movement not only of goods and ideas but also of people. The crossing of geographical borders confronts Christians, as well as all citizens, with choices: between national security and human insecurity, between sovereign national rights and human rights, between citizenship and discipleship. Bearing these global dimensions in mind, the essays in this book focus on the particular problems of immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border. The contributors to this volume include scholars as well as pastors and lay people involved in immigration aid work. Contributors: Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez, Gioacchino Campese, Daniel G. Groody, Jacqueline Hagan, Donald Senior, Peter C. Phan, Alex Nava, Gustavo Gutiérrez, Stephen Bevans, Robert Schreiter, Giovanni Graziano Tassello, Patrick Murphy, Robin Hoover, Graziano Battistella, Donald Kerwin, Raúl Fornet-Betancourt, Olivia Ruiz Marrujo, and Jorge E. Castillo Guerra.

Author : Vivienne Poy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773588394

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Passage to Promise Land by Vivienne Poy Pdf

Spanning more than six decades, Passage to Promise Land is a revealing study of Chinese immigration to Canada from the end of the Second World War to the present day. Tracing the evolution of immigration policy through the stories of Chinese immigrant women, Vivienne Poy captures the social, political, and ethnic tensions of the period. Although the narratives included here represent women of all ages and educational backgrounds, they share a common sense of determination and spirited resilience in the face of hardship. Through their stories we learn about Chinese settlement experience, how the Chinese community developed alongside changes in immigration regulations, and why the immigration of Chinese families to Canada became commonplace in the 1970s. The women address experiences of patriarchy and discrimination in both China and Canada, revive memories of the turbulent years in China at the end of the Pacific War, and speak of their uncertainties about the return of Hong Kong's sovereignty from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. From the very first mention of Chinese women's immigration in Canada's Parliament in 1879, to the end of the twentieth century - when a Chinese woman was appointed Governor General - the road to equality has been long and arduous. Passage to Promise Land details the important events along the way through the voices of the women themselves.

Author : Milton C. Sernett
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822382454

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Bound For the Promised Land by Milton C. Sernett Pdf

Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration—the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon’s religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyze the migration in terms of socioeconomic considerations. Drawing on a range of sources—interviews, government documents, church periodicals, books, pamphlets, and articles—Sernett shows how the mass migration created an institutional crisis for black religious leaders. He describes the creative tensions that resulted when the southern migrants who saw their exodus as the Second Emancipation brought their religious beliefs and practices into northern cities such as Chicago, and traces the resulting emergence of the belief that black churches ought to be more than places for "praying and preaching." Explaining how this social gospel perspective came to dominate many of the classic studies of African American religion, Bound for the Promised Land sheds new light on various components of the development of black religion, including philanthropic endeavors to "modernize" the southern black rural church. In providing a balanced and holistic understanding of black religion in post–World War I America, Bound for the Promised Land serves to reveal the challenges presently confronting this vital component of America’s religious mosaic.

Author : Daniel G. Groody,Gioacchino Campese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : OCLC:1245767566

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A Promised Land, a Perilous Journey by Daniel G. Groody,Gioacchino Campese Pdf

Author : Nicholas Lemann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307764874

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The Promised Land by Nicholas Lemann Pdf

A New York Times bestseller, the groundbreaking authoritative history of the migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A definitive book on American history, The Promised Land is also essential reading for educators and policymakers at both national and local levels.

Author : Anne J. Kershen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317103561

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London the Promised Land Revisited by Anne J. Kershen Pdf

Some two decades since the publication of London the Promised Land?, which charted and investigated the successes and failures of the migrant experience in London over a period of three hundred years, this book re-examines the migrant landscape in London. While remaining a beacon for immigrants, the migrant face of the city has changed rapidly and dramatically from one which was heavily populated by semi-skilled and unskilled post-colonial incomers, to one which now embraces the EU Accession Countries, refugees from the Middle East and Africa, oligarchs from Russia, the new wealthy from China, economic migrants from Latin America and Ireland, and still, post-colonial immigrants - at the same time witnessing the exodus ’home’ of incomers, or their descendants, who now see opportunities where there were none before. The contributors, all leading academics and practitioners in their diverse fields, examine changes to the migrant landscape of contemporary London at the micro, meso and macro levels. London the Promised Land Revisited thus explores a range of experiences in the capital, including the presence and treatment of illness amongst migrants, the phenomenon of migrant ’invisibility’ and asylum, the migrant marketplace and ethnic ’clustering’, and interaction with local and national government - across a variety of migrant groups, both ’new’ and ’old’. As such, this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interest in migration, migrant experiences and the contemporary ’global’ city.

Author : R. Douglas Francis,Chris Kitzan
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552382301

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The Prairie West as Promised Land by R. Douglas Francis,Chris Kitzan Pdf

Millions of immigrants were attracted to the Canadian West by promotional literature from the government in the late 19th century to the First World War bringing with them visions of opportunity to create a Utopian society or a chance to take control of their own destinies.

Author : Harry H. Hiller
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780773535176

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Second Promised Land by Harry H. Hiller Pdf

Explosive economic growth in resource-rich Alberta has led to a stunning increase in its population. In contrast to Ontario and British Columbia, which have grown primarily through international migration, Alberta has become a magnet for internal migrants, contributing to population redistribution within Canada, with significant national social and economic consequences. Combining statistical analysis and ethnographic study, Harry Hiller uncovers two waves of in-migration to Alberta. His innovative approach begins with the individual migrant and analyzes the relocation experience from origin to destination. Through interviews with hundreds of migrants, Hiller shows that migration is complex and dynamic, shaped not just by what Alberta offers but also prompted by a process that begins in the region of origin that makes migration possible and helps determine whether migrants stay or return home. By combining a social psychological approach with structural factors such as Alberta's transition from a regional hinterland province to its emerging role the global system, discussions of gender, The internet, and folk culture, Second Promised Land provides a multi-dimensional and deeply human account of a contemporary Canadian phenomenon.

Author : Mario Maffi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004649255

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Gateway to the Promised Land by Mario Maffi Pdf

For the first time told in its entirety, the social and cultural experience of New York's Lower East Side comes vividly to life in this book as that of a huge and complex laboratory ever swelled and fed by migrant flows and ever animated by a high-voltage tension of daily research and resistance - the fascinating history of the historical immigrant quarter that, in Manhattan, stretches between East 14th Street, East River, the access to the Brooklyn Bridge, and Lafayette Street. Irish and Germans at first, then Chinese and Italians and East European Jews, and finally Puerto Ricans gave birth, in its streets and sweatshops, cafés and tenements, to a lively multi-ethnic and cross-cultural community, which was at the basis of several modern artistic expressions, from literature to cinema, from painting to theatre. The book, based upon a rich wealth of historical materials (settlement reports, autobiographies, novels, newspaper articles) and on first-hand experience, explores the many different aspects of this long history from the late 19th century years to nowadays: the way in which immigrants reacted to the new environment and entered a fruitful dialectics with America, the way in which they reorganized their lives and expectations and struggled to defend a collective identity against all disintegrating factors, the way in which they created and disseminated cultural products, the way in which they functioned as a gigantic magnet attracting several outside artists and intellectuals. The book thus has a long introduction detailing the present situation and mainly depicting the realities within the Chinese and Puerto Rican communities and the fight against gentrification, six chapters on the Lower East Side's past history (its social and cultural geography, the relationship among the several different communities, the labor situation, the literary output, the development of an ethnic theatre, the neighborhood's influences upon turn-of-the-century American culture in the fields of sociology, photography, art, literature and cinema), and a conclusion summing up past and present and discussing the main aspects of a Lower East Side aesthetics.

Author : Mary Antin
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781528781558

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The Promised Land by Mary Antin Pdf

This compelling autobiography narrates the story of immigration rights activist Mary Antin, and her enlightening journey from early life in Russia to her migration and Americanisation in late nineteenth-century USA. The Promised Land is an introspective first-hand account of life as a Jewish American immigrant. Mary Antin was just 12-years-old when she arrived in Boston with her family and she underwent a great deal of change and development before she could call the USA her home. Antin’s autobiography details how the young Jewish girl escaped Czarist Russia and adapted to an entirely new culture and lifestyle. Antin explores her memories of public school and accompanies powerful historical context with hard-hitting political commentary. The Promised Land is one person’s story, but speaks for the millions who have had all too similar experiences. This gripping volume includes fascinating chapters such as: - Children of the Law - Daily Bread - The Exodus - The Initiation - ‘My Country’ - A Child’s Paradise Now in a new edition, Read & Co. Books have republished this illuminating autobiography for a new generation of readers. The Promised Land is a great read for those interested in the history of immigration rights and for fans of Mary Antin’s work.

Author : Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher : Random House
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448138265

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The Promised Land by Erich Maria Remarque Pdf

The final, previously unpublished novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front - a dreamlike, powerfully moving account of an emigrant's experience of New York during World War II. From the detention centre on Ellis Island, Ludwig Somner looks across a small stretch of water to the glittering towers of New York, which whisper seductively of freedom after so many years of wandering through a perlious, suffering Europe. Remarque's final novel, left unfinished at his death, tells of the precarious life of the refugee – life lived in hotel lobbies, on false passports, the strange, ill-assorted refugee community held together by an unspeakable past. For Somner, each new luxury - ice cream served in drugstores, bright shop windows, art, a new suit, a new romance - has a bittersweet edge. Memories of war and inhumanity continue to resurface even in this peaceful promised land.

Author : Dr. Joseph Boomenyo
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781663224828

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The Power of Prayer and the Promised Land by Dr. Joseph Boomenyo Pdf

There are over 80 million people of concern to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). About 30 million are refugees and others are asylum-seekers, internally displaced people and the stateless. The book you are holding in your hand is an advocacy and lobbying tool for the empowerment of refugees. It presents practical ideas that need to be implemented by government leaders, corporations, religious leaders, and the civil society in addressing the plight of refugees living in refugee camps in Africa and other parts of the world. It reveals that Refugee Resettlement Program is an answered prayer to the needs of refugees. This book is spreading hope and good news to the world experiencing the crisis of coronavirus pandemic. The book concludes with the cry for peace without recourse to war. It has given an appeal to our leaders around the world, believers and all the people to participate in the search for world peace through dialogue, negotiation, mediation, and genuine political willingness and commitment.

Author : Mary Antin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : OCLC:525070579

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The Promised Land by Mary Antin Pdf