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  title info:
    title: When Africa comes to America
    sub title: how the next wave of immigrants will transform the United States
  name:
    name part: Kaushal, Neeraj
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 282 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
  abstract: "Africans are the fastest growing immigrant group to the United States, up from a tiny fraction of one percent in the 1960s to eleven percent in 2020. Most other traditional sources of immigration to the United States-Latin America, Europe and East Asia-are drying up. By the second half of the twenty-first century, the Black immigration from Africa will emerge as the biggest source of new immigration to the United States. A growing concern in the media is that emigration from Africa is rising because migrants are escaping poverty, hunger, civil wars, and climate change. This book argues that the causes of emigration from Africa are no different from the causes of emigration from the rest of the world. The continent is growing demographically and economically; emerging from decades of penury, hunger, and underdevelopment; foreign investment is rising faster than foreign aid; and the continent's sizable and growing middle-class has the aspirations and the means to emigrate to the United States. This book covers, primarily, legal immigration. Such migration will meet US needs no less than those of African migrants. This book will use data and empirical research to defy a number of myths that dominate the narratives on immigration, in general, and on immigration from Africa, in particular. On one extreme is the ugly rhetoric of the political right. Others fear that Africa is a continent on the move, its people emigrating in large numbers to escape poverty, hunger, and climatic change. Kaushal provides evidence based on research that rising immigration from Africa is the result of favorable economic and demographic forces; Africans (as a proportion of their population) are no more, or less, on the move than the residents of other continents; Africans emigrating to the US are highly skilled and privileged, and soon after arrival most join the middle-class and higher income groups"-- Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Continental shifts -- The new model minority? -- Winds of change : immigration from the rest of the world -- A history of Black immigration from the Caribbean -- African immigration : contexts of reception & progress -- America's need : give me your youth... -- Public opinion and rising Black immigration -- Internal dynamics : divided we stand -- How Black immigration is changing America.
  note: Neeraj Kaushal.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    topic: Africans
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Black people
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: United States
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Emigration and immigration
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Émigration et immigration
  subject:
    topic: Africans
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Black people
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: E184.A24 K38 2026
  classification: 305.896/073
  related item:
    title info:
      title: When Africa comes to America
    name:
      name part: Kaushal, Neeraj
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2026]
    identifier: (DLC) 2025051627
  identifier: 9780231220590
  identifier: 0231220596
  identifier: 9780231220606
  identifier: 023122060X
  identifier: 9780231563314
  identifier: 2025051626
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 260116
    record change date: 20260808204555.0
    record identifier: in00005790293
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng