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The immigrants to the United States since 1965 are overwhelmingly an urban population; they have converged on a small number of large metropolitan areas. This article describes the characteristics of the new immigration and its geography. It then focusses on the key immigrant-receiving metropolitan areas and discusses the relationship between the restructuring of their economies and land markets and the employment and settlement patterns of the new immigrants.

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations ix --Acknowledgments xi PART ONE * How the Other Half Works -- 1. Introduction 3 PART TWO * The Social Organization of Labor --2. What Employers Want 31 -- 3. Doing the Job 42 -- 4. The Language of Work 63 PART THREE * From Market to Work --5. Network, Bureaucracy, and Exclusion 83 -- 6. Social Capital and Social Closure 100 -- 7. Bringing the Boss Back In 122 PART FOUR * Prejudice, Preferences, and Conflict --8. Whom Employers Want 141 -- 9. "Us" and "Them" 155 -- 10. Diversity and Its Discontents 181 -- PART FIVE * Ethnicity at Work --11. Black/Immigrant Competition 205 -- 12. Conclusion 218 --Appendix: The Local Context 235 --Notes 253 --Index 277