Author: First Books Inc
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ISBN: 9780912301303
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 0912301600
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Author: Stacey Ravel Abarbanel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Joan Wai
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912301914
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Heidi Deal
Publisher: Firstbooks.com
ISBN: 9781937090531
Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Brand new, updated for 2014! First Books, publisher of the bestselling Newcomer¿s Handbook® relocation series, is excited to announce publication of the sixth edition of the Newcomer¿s Handbook® for Moving to and Living in Los Angeles: Including Santa Monica, Pasadena, Orange County, and the San Fernando Valley. This 398-page volume will quickly orient newcomers to the history, culture, and lifestyle of the Southland. Highlights include: ¿ Local Quirks & Lingo, in the Introduction, offers essentials for living here; unsurprisingly, many points are related to driving and parking. How does a ¿red flag day¿ alert affect parking? Does ¿going over the hill¿ have something to do with unavailability of plastic surgery? ¿ Each community section in the Neighborhoods chapter now features a photo sample of local housing in the area. Get an idea of what to expect before exploring neighborhoods for yourself. ¿ A new section of Helpful Apps has been added to the Getting Settled chapter, offering even more ways to get connected in the area.

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Category : Los Angeles (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Author: Joan Wai
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780912301433
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Mike Livingston
Publisher: First Books
ISBN: 0912301570
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Roger Waldinger
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610445473
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Since 1965 more immigrants have come to Los Angeles than anywhere else in the United States. These newcomers have rapidly and profoundly transformed the city's ethnic makeup and sparked heated debate over their impact on the region's troubled economy. Ethnic Los Angeles presents a multi-investigator study of L.A.'s immigrant population, exploring the scope, characteristics, and consequences of ethnic transition in the nation's second most populous urban center. Using the wealth of information contained in the U.S. censuses of 1970, 1980, and 1990, essays on each of L.A.'s major ethnic groups tell who the immigrants are, where they come from, the skills they bring and their sources of employment, and the nature of their families and social networks. The contributors explain the history of legislation and economic change that made the city a magnet for immigration, and compare the progress of new immigrants to those of previous eras. Recent immigrants to Los Angeles follow no uniform course of adaptation, nor do they simply assimilate into the mainstream society. Instead, they have entered into distinct niches at both the high and low ends of the economic spectrum. While Asians and Middle Easterners have thrived within the medical and technical professions, low-skill newcomers from Central America provide cheap labor in light manufacturing industries. As Ethnic Los Angeles makes clear, the city's future will depend both on how well its economy accommodates its diverse population, and on how that population adapts to economic changes. The more prosperous immigrants arrived already possessed of advanced educations and skills, but what does the future hold for less-skilled newcomers? Will their children be able to advance socially and economically, as the children of previous immigrants once did? The contributors examine the effect of racial discrimination, both in favoring low-skilled immigrant job seekers over African Americans, and in preventing the more successful immigrants and native-born ethnic groups from achieving full economic parity with whites. Ethnic Los Angeles is an illuminating portrait of a city whose unprecedented changes are sure to be replicated in other urban areas as new concentrations of immigrants develop. Backed by detailed demographic information and insightful analyses, this volume engages all of the issues that are central to today's debates about immigration, ethnicity, and economic opportunity in a post-industrial urban society.

Author: Helen Thorpe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501159097
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Traces the lives of twenty-two immigrant teens throughout the course of a year at Denver's South High School who attended a specially created English Language Acquisition class and who were helped to adapt through strategic introductions to American culture.