Housing Divide How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market

Name: Housing Divide How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York's Housing Market
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ISBN: 9780814775905

ISBN-10: 081477590X

ISBN-13: 9780814775905

Edition: 2006

Authors: Emily Rosenbaum, Samantha Friedman

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An excellent and timely volume, very well written, clearly organized, and cogently argued. -Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University The Housing Divide examines the generational patterns in New York City's housing market and neighborhoods along the lines of race and ethnicity. The book provides an in-depth analysis of many immigrant groups in New York, especially providing an understanding of the opportunities and discriminatory practices at work from one generation to the next. Through a careful read of such factors as home ownership, housing quality, and neighborhood rates of crime, welfare enrollment, teenage pregnancy, and educational achievement, Emily Rosenbaum…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 309
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Emily Rosenbaum is professor of sociology at Fordham University.

Samantha Friedman is assistant professor of sociology at Northeastern University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Movin' on Up: Understanding Locational Attainment



Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Housing in New York through 1970



The New New Yorkers: Immigration from the 1970s to the Present



Assimilation or Stratification? Predicting Housing and Neighborhood Conditions for New York City Households



Patterns of Locational Attainment by Race/Ethnicity: Is There Evidence of Segmented Assimilation?



Conclusions and Policy Implications



Data and Methodology








Notes


References


Index


About the Authors