Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States
“Have you ever wondered where and how immigrants are settling and integrating into cities and metropolitan regions in the United States?” states a news article about our new edited book, Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States, that the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Kennesaw State University, where I work in metro Atlanta, Georgia, posted on their website.
The article continues:
“Kennesaw State University researchers Dr. Paul N. McDaniel, Associate Professor of Geography in the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Dr. Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Associate Professor of Social Work and Human Services in the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, explore this very question with their new edited book, Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States, from Lexington Books (an Imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, now part of Bloomsbury), which publishes cutting-edge, award-winning, peer-reviewed monographs in the social sciences and humanities written by both emerging and established scholars. This timely volume explores the ever-changing landscape of immigrant experiences in our nation’s metropolitan areas, and joins a long list of scholarly books that faculty across different disciplines at Kennesaw State University have authored and edited, including many published by Lexington Books.”
“Despite the velocity and scale of the cumulative changes of immigrant integration and receptivity infrastructures in fast growing regions of the United States, less research has focused on the new and evolving experiences in these regions in recent years,” Lexington Books describes. “Editors Paul N. McDaniel and Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez and the contributors in Integration and Receptivity in Immigrant Gateway Metro Regions in the United States fill this gap through case studies of different types of immigrant gateway metro areas. They provide insight into how immigrant settlement, integration, and receptivity processes and practices within each metro area have continued to evolve beyond the nascent experiences documented in the early 2000s. This interdisciplinary volume examines ongoing processes in not only well-established immigrant gateways, but also in previously overlooked regions. This book is a resource for researchers, students, and practitioners to contextualize the ongoing changes in new destination metropolitan regions in the United States and to learn from the challenges, opportunities, and best practices emerging from different metropolitan regional contexts.”
The book ventures beyond the well-known and well-researched gateway cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Co-editors Dr. McDaniel and Dr. Rodriguez have assembled an interdisciplinary team of contributors, ranging from highly regarded senior scholars in the field, to emerging scholars and early career faculty, from across the U.S. to examine 14 fascinating case study metropolitan regions. These cases range from former and established immigrant gateways like Detroit, Washington DC, and Miami, to the emerging and fast-growing destinations of Atlanta, Charlotte, Greensboro, Nashville, and Minneapolis-St. Paul, and to the lesser-known immigrant gateway metro areas of Burlington, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Birmingham, Des Moines, and Reno.
Continue reading the full article here from the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Kennesaw State University.
Originally published at https://radow.kennesaw.edu.
