From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban...

These 21 national case studies of internal migration were written especially for this unusual and useful volume. . . . The resulting blend of the general and the particular, especially when viewed across the 21 countries, will be useful to a wide range of basic and applied social scientists....

Somos Americanos : Mexican immigration and US national identity in the twenty-first century / Carl Pedersen -- Mexican mestiz identity in the twenty-first century capital and labor / Helene Balslev Clausen -- The other side of the migration story : Mexican women in the US / Silvia E. Giorguli...

Introduction: remittance space: buildings as evidence of social change -- The remittance house: dream homes at a distance -- Tres por uno: the spatial legacy of remittance policy -- El jaripeo: the gendered spectacle of remittance -- La casa de cultura: norteño institutions transform public...