American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration

Contents

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 vii CONTENTS viii 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 ...