American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration

385 Pages·2003·1.288 MB·English

by  Nancy Foner (editor)

American Arrivals
Publication of the Advanced Seminar Series
is made possible by generous support from
The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston, Texas.
School of American Research
Advanced Seminar Series
Richard M. Leventhal
General Editor
American Arrivals
Contributors
Caroline B. Brettell
Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University
Leo R. Chavez
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Nancy Foner
School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York and
Department of Anthropology, Purchase College, State University of New York,
Nina Glick Schiller
Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire
and the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology
Jennifer S. Hirsch
Departments of International Health and Anthropology, Emory University
Patricia R. Pessar
American Studies Department, Yale University
Richard A. Shweder
Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago
Alex Stepick
Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the Immigration and Ethnicity
Institute, Florida International University
Carol Dutton Stepick
Immigration and Ethnicity Institute, Florida International
University
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
Harvard Immigration Projects, Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University
American Arrivals
Anthropology Engages the New Immigration
Edited by Nancy Foner
School of American Research Press
Santa Fe
School of American Research Press
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Director: James F. Brooks
Executive Editor: Catherine Cocks
Manuscript Editor: Kate Talbot
Design and Production: Cynthia Welch
Proofreader: Sarah Baldwin
Indexer: Sylvia Coates
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
American arrivals : anthropology engages the new immigration / edited by
Nancy Foner.— 1st ed.
p. cm. — (School of American Research advanced seminar series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-930618-33-6 (cloth: alk. paper) — ISBN 1-930618-34-4 (pbk. : alk.
paper)
1. Immigrants—United States—Research. 2. United States—Emigration
and immigration—Research. 3. Anthropology—Research—United States.
I. Foner, Nancy, 1945- II. Series.
JV6465 .A53 2003
304.8'73—dc21
2003013210
Copyright © 2003 by the School of American Research. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 2003013210
International Standard Book Number 978-1-938645-22-8.
First edition 2003.
Cover illustration: Shoppers.Oil on linen by Nina Talbot © Nina Talbot
Contents
List of Figures and Tables ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction: Anthropology and Contemporary
Immigration to the United States—Where We Have Been
and Where We Are Going 3
Nancy Foner
2 Right Moves? Immigration, Globalization,
Utopia, and Dystopia 45
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
3 Anthropology and the Engendering of Migration Studies 75
Patricia R. Pessar
4 The Centrality of Ethnography in the Study of
Transnational Migration: Seeing the Wetlands
Instead of the Swamp 99
Nina Glick Schiller
5 Becoming American: Immigration, Identity,
Intergenerational Relations, and Academic Orientation 129
Alex Stepick and Carol Dutton Stepick
6 Bringing the City Back In: Cities as Contexts for
Immigrant Incorporation 163
Caroline B. Brettell
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CONTENTS
7 Immigration and Medical Anthropology 197
Leo R. Chavez
8 Anthropologists, Migrants, and Health Research:
Confronting Cultural Appropriateness 229
Jennifer S. Hirsch
9 The Moral Challenge in Cultural Migration 259
Richard A. Shweder
References 295
Index 358
viii
Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 Distribution of the Foreign Born by Region of
Birth, 2002 63
2.2 Percent of Immigrant Population with Bachelor’s
Degree or Higher by Origin, 2000 64
2.3 Percent of Immigrant Population with Less than
Ninth Grade Completed by Origin, 2002 65
Tables
2.1 Population Living below US $1 per Day in
Developing Countries 1990 and 1998 47
7.1 Selected Folk Illnesses Found among Immigrants
in the United States 202
7.2 The Six Highest-Ranked Breast Cancer Risk Factors
according to Mexican Immigrants and Physicians
in Orange County, California 210
7.3 Sociodemographic Characteristics of Latina
Immigrants, Latina Citizens, and White Women
in Orange County, 1992–1993 212
7.4 Sources of Medical Care for Immigrant Latinas,
Latina Citizens, and White Women in Orange County
Who Had a Regular Source of Care, 1992–1993 217
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