Table of Contents

List of Figures, Maps, and Tables

1. Exploring Contemporary Ethnic Geographies, Christopher A. Airriess
2. Creating Contemporary Ethnic Geographies: A Review of Immigration Law, Ines M. Miyares
3. New Ethnic Landscapes: Place Making in Urban America, Brian J. Godfrey
4. Immigrants at Work, Michael Reibel and Christopher A. Airriess
5. Ethnic Festivals, Cultural Tourism, and Pan-Ethnicity, Michael Hawkins
6. Mexican Americans, Daniel D. Arreola and Alex Oberle
7. Caribbean Hispanics: Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Dominicans, Heike Alberts
8. Non-Hispanic West Indians: Race, Identity, and Incorporation, Milton Vickerman
9. Central Americans: Legal Status and Settledness, Ines M. Miyares
10. Andean South Americans: Settlement Patterns and Transnational Networks, Marie Price
11. Chinese Americans: Enduring Community and Increasing Diversity, Wei Li and Wan Yu
12. Korean Americans: Entrepreneurship and Religion, Jane Yeonjae Lee
13. Filipinos: The Invisible Ethnic Community, James A. Tyner
14. Asian Indians: Construction of Community and Identity, Emily Skop
15. Mainland Southeast Asia: Diversity of Conflict Migrants, Christopher A. Airriess
16. Immigrants from the Muslim World: Lebanese and Iranians, Elizabeth Chacko

Index
About the Contributors

About the Author

Christopher A. Airriess is professor of geography at Ball State University.

Reviews

Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America is an excellent and distinctive volume. The theoretical backdrop is clear and cohesive, and each chapter provides illuminating examples of a broad and wide range of immigration and ethnic studies. This text is vital reading for social sciences and geography undergraduate and graduate students studying immigration, race, and ethnicity—no doubt, a fundamental source!
*Alan Marcus, Towson University*

Many books on the market cover just one aspect of ethnicity or focus on a single ethnic group. Very few tie together the variety of ethnic experiences with detailed examples. The second edition of Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America accomplishes this feat by pulling together some superb ethnic geographers, treating each aspect of the ethnic experience with respect, and creating an overall volume that is greater than the sum of its parts. Everyone who teaches ethnic studies should have a copy of this book close at hand.
*David Kaplan, Kent State University*

Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America provides an academic audience with a rich and varied set of case studies framed by contemporary theoretical and historical perspectives in one accessible text. This book would serve as a welcome addition to both undergraduate and graduate courses in multiple disciplines within the social sciences.
*Ethnic and Racial Studies*

Impressive. . . . This unique volume provides a very useful assessment of the ethnic landscape of the U.S. utilizing the concepts of social and human geography, nicely supplementing the bulk of existing work on the contemporary immigrant U.S., which is primarily written by social scientists from other disciplines. Highly recommended.
*Choice Reviews*

This volume will be extremely useful to those dealing with border studies, urban studies, urban planning, cultural diversity, geography of the United States, ethnic gateway communities, transnational communities, cultural networks, and conflict immigrants.
*Sarah Osgood Brooks*