 | Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York Subjects: West Indian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses; West Indian Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Race identity -- Congresses; Blacks -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Blac; This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical data to explore the effects of West Indian migration and to develop analytic frameworks to examine it. Foner Nancy : Nancy Foner is Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Purchase. She is the author of From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (2000) and The Caregiving Dilemma: Work in an American Nursing Home (1994), among others. She is the editor of New Immigrants in New York (1987) and coeditor, with Rubén Rumbaut and Steven Gold, of Immigration Research for a New Century: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2000). |
