Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. People from Andean South America, Central America, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam,...

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Hauptverfasser:	Tonnelat, Stéphane (VerfasserIn), Kornblum, William (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Columbia University Press [2017]
Schlagworte:	Einwanderer Gesellschaft Kulturkontakt Multikulturelle Gesellschaft Untergrundbahnlinie New York, NY Multiculturalism / New York (State) / New York Subways / Social aspects / New York (State) / New York Ethnic groups / New York (State) / New York Immigrants / Cultural assimilation / New York (State) / New York Ethnic groups Immigrants / Cultural assimilation Multiculturalism Subways / Social aspects New York (State) / New York
Zusammenfassung:	Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. People from Andean South America, Central America, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam, as well as residents of a number of gentrifying blue-collar and industrial neighborhoods, fill the busy streets around the stations. The 7 train is a microcosm of a specifically urban, New York experience, in which individuals from a variety of cultures and social classes are forced to interact and get along with one another. For newcomers to the city, mastery of life in the subway space is a step toward assimilation into their new home. In International Express, the French ethnographer St phane Tonnelat and his collaborator William Kornblum, a native New Yorker, ride the 7 subway line to better understand the intricacies of this phenomenon. They also ask a group of students with immigrant backgrounds to keep diaries of their daily rides on the 7 train. What develops over time, they find, is a set of shared subway competences leading to a practical cosmopolitanism among riders, including immigrants and their children, that changes their personal values and attitudes toward others in small, subtle ways. This growing civility helps newcomers feel at home in an alien city and builds what the authors call a "situational community in transit."
Beschreibung:	xi, 297 pages 24 cm
ISBN:	9780231181488