Immigration and the Remaking of New York City

3 PM, Laboratory 4, Doctoral School of Social Sciences, via Verdi 26

Speaker:

• Nancy Foner – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Abstract

After fifty years of massive immigration, more than one out of three New Yorkers is foreign born. Add on the U.S.-born second generation and the figure is more than one out of two or about five million people. Not surprisingly, immigration has affected virtually every aspect of New York life.  This talk examines how immigration has transformed, and is continuing to transform, the city, in the process considering broader questions about immigration and change. It also raises issues about the importance of looking at how cities present distinct contexts for understanding the transformations that result from large-scale immigration.