African Immigrants in the United States - by Mamadi Corra (Paperback)

About the Book

Today, African immigrants constitute a growing and increasingly visible component of the US population. This book takes a closer look at the growth of African immigration to the United States in recent years, examining sociodemographic profiles of these "new African Americans" or "new Americans."

Book Synopsis

Today, African immigrants constitute a growing and increasingly visible component of the US population. This book takes a closer look at the growth of African immigration to the United States in recent years, examining sociodemographic profiles of these "new African Americans" or "new Americans."

Review Quotes

"Drawing on various sources of government data, Corra maps the socioeconomic incorporation of African immigrants with keen attention to gender differences and ethnoracial diversity. This book is setting the terms for new debates on the lives of African immigrants in the United States!"

"In this clearly written volume, Corra provides a comprehensive analysis of African immigrants' labor force outcomes. This is the first study to encompass movers from the entire continent: North Africa as well as Sub-Saharan. Corra's purview includes Black as well as white, women as well as men. Keeping these distinctions in mind, Corra examines several labor market outcomes. The fine-grained analysis proves worthwhile because the results vary markedly by outcome, place, race, and gender."

"Mamadi Corra has assembled a fascinating portrait of immigrants to the United States from Africa, examining key dimensions (such as race, gender, linguistic heritage, US legal status) and contrasting socioeconomic profiles across a variety of subsets of the US, US Black, immigrant, and African-immigrant populations. Importantly, this book is grounded not only on key ideas in the migration literature, such as selectivity, but also on key insights about languages and contexts across origin and destination countries. Corra is an insightful guide to a new chapter in the story of US immigration, as newcomers build their lives and, in the process, help build a new country."

About the Author

Mamadi Corra is professor of sociology at East Carolina University (ECU).