New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape

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by  Nancy Foner

New York and Amsterdam
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New York and Amsterdam
Immigration and the New Urban Landscape
Edited by
Nancy Foner, Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak,
and Rogier van Reekum
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New York and Amsterdam : immigration and the new urban landscape /
edited by Nancy Foner, Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Rogier van Reekum.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8147-3809-2 (cl : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8147-3844-3 (pb : alk. paper)
1. Immigrants—New York (State)—New York. 2. Immigrants—Netherlands—
Amsterdam. 3. New York (N.Y.) — Emigration and immigration. 4. Amsterdam
(Netherlands) — Emigration and immigration. 5. Cultural pluralism — New York
(State) — N ew York. 6. Cultural pluralism — N etherlands — Amsterdam.
I. Foner, Nancy, 1945– editor of compilation.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: New York and Amsterdam: Immigration 1
and the New Urban Landscape
Jan Rath, Nancy Foner, Jan Willem Duyvendak,
and Rogier van Reekum
Part I: How Has the Immigrant Past Shaped 23
the Immigrant Present in New York City
and Amsterdam?
1. Immigration History and the Remaking of New York 29
Nancy Foner
2. To Amsterdam: Migrations Past and Present 52
Leo Lucassen
Part II: What Difference Does the Urban Economy 83
Make to Immigrant Incorporation?
3. Immigrants in New York City’s Economy: A Portrait 89
in Full Living Color
David Dyssegaard Kallick
4. From Amsterdamned to I Amsterdam: The Amsterdam 107
Economy and Its Impact on the Labor Market Position
of Migrants, 1980–2010
Robert C. Kloosterman
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Part III: Is Islam in Amsterdam Like Race in 133
New York City?
5. Nativism, Racism, and Immigration in New York City 143
Mary C. Waters
6. Governing through Religion in Amsterdam: 170
The Stigmatization of Ethnic Cultures and the Uses of Islam
Justus Uitermark, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Jan Rath
Part IV: How Are Immigrants Entering the 195
Precincts of Power in New York City and
Amsterdam?
7. The Rise of Immigrant Influence in New York City Politics 203
John Mollenkopf
8. Immigrant Political Engagement and Incorporation 230
in Amsterdam
Floris Vermeulen, Laure Michon, and Jean Tillie
Part V: How Are the Children of Immigrants 257
Shaped by and also Changing New York City’s
and Amsterdam’s Cultural Life?
9. Immigrants, the Arts, and the “Second-Generation 263
Advantage” in New York
Philip Kasinitz
10. Immigrant Youths’ Contribution to Urban Culture 287
in Amsterdam
Christine Delhaye, Sawitri Saharso, and Victor van de Ven
About the Contributors 311
Index 317
Acknowledgments
This book has its origins in a conference held at the University of
Amsterdam in January 2011. Entitled “Amsterdam and New York: The
Impact of Immigration in Two Global Cities,” the conference brought
together a distinguished group of scholars to explore—and compare—
how immigration has dramatically changed Amsterdam and New York
in recent decades and, at the same time, affected the lives of the hun-
dreds of thousands of immigrants, and their second-generation chil-
dren, who live there. The conference evolved out of the activities of the
Center for Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam, as well as
earlier collaborations among many of the Dutch and American con-
tributors to this volume. Through these collaborations as well as con-
versations at various workshops and meetings on both sides of the
Atlantic, we became more aware of the effects of—and scholarly work
on—immigration in each other’s cities. It became clear that there was a
need for a more systematic examination and comparison of the conse-
quences of immigration in Amsterdam and New York, which is what
led to the organization of the conference—and ultimately this book.
We would like to express our gratitude to the Center for Urban Stud-
ies at the University of Amsterdam for its support in making the con-
ference possible. We are also grateful to the Institute for Ethnic and
Migration Studies (IMES), also at the University of Amsterdam, for its
additional support, and owe a special thanks to Aukje IJpma, who at
the time of the conference was a research assistant at the institute. At
the conference itself, a number of people served as discussants, and we
are grateful for their excellent commentaries. These include many of
the authors in this volume as well as Daniel Hiebert, Yvonne Leeman,
Bowen Paulle, and Sharon Zukin. In New York, we thank the CUNY
Graduate Center for providing a meeting place for the editors in the
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process of preparing the book, as well as serving as an intellectual home
that has nurtured the work of several of the New York authors.
We have had the great good fortune to work with a wonderful editor
at New York University Press, Ilene Kalish, who has been a source of
support, wisdom, and advice at every stage of the publication process.
We are also grateful to assistant editors Aidan Amos and Caelyn Cobb
as well as managing editor Dorothea Stillman Halliday for their help
along the way. Thanks, too, to the two anonymous reviewers for their
suggestions, which, we believe, have made this a better book.
Finally, our appreciation to all the authors in the volume for their
commitment to this ambitious transatlantic project, their responsive-
ness to requests for revisions from us and from reviewers, and for the
high quality of their contributions.
Introduction
New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape
Jan Rath, Nancy Foner, Jan Willem Duyvendak,
and Rogier van Reekum
Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the
world. Nowhere is this more true than in Amsterdam and New York
City, which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have popu-
lations that are about a third foreign born. Amsterdam and New York
City have had to deal with incorporating hundreds of thousands of
immigrants whose ethnic, racial, and national backgrounds differ from
those of many long-established residents, and who display a variety
of different languages, religions, cultures, and lifestyles. How have the
specific urban contexts of Amsterdam and New York shaped the fates
of these newcomers? And—conversely—how has the massive recent
immigration transformed New York City and Amsterdam? These are
the central questions that will be addressed in this book.
ATransatlantic Comparison of Immigrant Cities
Amsterdam and New York City share more than a high proportion of
foreign born. That the immigrants arriving there in the last half century
have mostly come from outside of Europe is a new development in both
cities. Newcomers have had to face a wide array of challenges of adjust-
ment and accommodation, and these processes show remarkable simi-
larities in the two cities. Immigrants have sometimes gotten a cold or
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