Audrey Kobayashi, Wei Li, and Carlos Teixeira: Introduction: Immigrant Geographies: Issues and Debates
Part I: The 'Internationalization' of North American Cities and Suburbs
1. Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston: Going Local: Canadian and American Immigration Policy in the New
Century
2. Dirk Hoerder and Scott Walker: Immigration Trends in the United States and Canada: A Historical Perspective
Part II: The Imprint of Immigration in North American Cities and Suburbs
3. Robert A. Murdie and Emily Skop: Immigration and Urban and Suburban Settlements
4.
Joe Darden and Eric Fong: The Spatial Segregation and Socioeconomic Inequality of Immigrant Groups
5. Thomas Carter and Domenic Vitiello: Immigrants, Refugees, and Housing
6. Lucia Lo and Wei Li: Economic Experiences of Immigrants
7. Brian Ray and Damaris Rose: How Gender Matters to
Immigration and Settlement in Canadian and US Cities
8. Lu Wang, Elizabeth Chacko and Lindsay Withers: Immigration, Health, and Health Care
9. Els de Graauw and Caroline Andrew: Immigrant Political Incorporation in American and Canadian Cities
Part III: Immigrant Groups in North
American Cities and Suburbs
10. Shuguang Wang and Qingfang Wang: Contemporary Asian Immigrants in the United States and Canada
11. Thomas Boswell and Brian Ray: Contemporary Profiles of Black Immigrants in the United States and Canada
12. Luisa Veronis and Heather Smith: Latin
American Immigrants: Parallel and Diverging Geographies
13. Susan Hardwick and Heather Smith: Crossing the 49th Parallel: American Immigrants in Canada and Canadians in the US
James Allen and Carlos Teixeira: Conclusion: A Review and Some Significant Findings
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Carlos Teixeira received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. at the Universite du Quebec and his Ph.D. in geography at York University. Dr. Teixeira's research interests include urban and social geography, with an emphasis on migration processes, community formation, housing and neighbourhood change, ethnic
entrepreneurship, and the social structure of Canadian and American cities.
Wei Li received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Beijing, China; and her Ph.D. in geography at the University of Southern California. She is a Professor at the Asian Pacific American Studies/School of Social
Transformation, and School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning in the Arizona State University, USA. Her foci of research are immigration and integration, and transnational connections, focusing on the Pacific Rim. She is the author or co-editor of three scholarly books, and has about 70
other academic publications.
Audrey Kobayashi completed a BA and MA at the University of British Columbia, and she completed a PhD at UCLA in 1983. She taught in geography and East Asian studies at McGill University from 1983 to 1994, when she came to Queen's, initially as Director of
the Institute of Women's Studies (1994-1999) and thereafter as Professor of Geography. She has spent time as a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, University College London, and, most recently, Canterbury University, in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1994, she was a Fulbright
fellow at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, DC.
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