| New York is the biggest economic center of the world today.It is also one of the most fascinating and lively cities with strong characters of its own. New York is a typical immigrant city. It developed most rapidly in history during the period of 1820 to 1920. This dissertation attempts to explore,from the angle of immigrants,the track of the development of New York and the historical inspiration gained from it. The dissertation tries to depict the real history of the one hundred years and give an objective explanation of the problems concerned.This dissertation includes preface,conclusion,and main body which falls into six chapters with eighteen sections.It covers about 150,000 words.Chapter One:Immigrants and the track of the growth of New York. Based on the historical courses of the founding,development and prosperity of New York,this chapter explores how the social and economic push factors of the homelands of the immigrants and the pull factors of New York influenced the mobilities and changes of the immigrants. It also explores how immigrants played a key role in the development of the city after they came to New York,and promoted it to develop from an ordinary city to an international metropolis. This chapter provides historical background for further study on the problems concerning immigrants and the development of New York.Chapter Two:Characteristics of immigrants and their residential distribution and employment patterns.This chapter mainly deals with the mould of population growth in the course of urbanization of New York Different from that of other countries,population growth in New York mainly depended on the influx of large groups of foreign immigrants,rather than the influx of rural population of its own country. Different from other cities in the United States,immigrants in New York made up a large proportion,and besides,they came from various parts of the world. So this determined the features of the development of the city. This chapter analyses and expounds the residential distribution of the immigrants in New York and their employment patterns.Chapter Three:Immigrant factors in the economic growth of New York. In the first half of the 19th century,the economy of New York developed by leaps and bounds,and even after 1870,it still kept up the fastest speed of development .Why is it so? Is there anything to do with the immigrant waves? This is what the chapter chiefly discusses.Immigrants coming from different countries and in different periods provided different labour forces for the development of the city. This had great influence on the production sectors and the industrial structure of New York.That New York changed from a former sea port into an industrial and commercial city and later a financial center of the world had close relation to the immigrants.Chapter Four:Immigrants and crimes in New York. In the course of modernization of New York City,the splits and the conflicts between different immigrant groups and between immigrant groups and the society of New York caused the problems of crimes concerning immigrants more complex and sharper. How to look at the problems of relatively higher crime rate in the immigrant groups? These are the issues that this chapter deals with.Chapter FiverThe formation of the slum area in Harlem:The formation of the slum area is the negative effect in the development of the city. Most major cities in the world had slum areas in their development.Harlem slum area in New York is of typical significance,ffith history as its clue,this chapter applies the theories of sociology,demography and urban economics to explore how Harlem changed from a middle class community into a well-known slum area.Chapter Six:Administration of immigrants and the conflicts and mixture of national cultures:Immigrants administration is a complex systematic engineering and it has rich meanings. This chapter chiefly expounds the systematic administration of the immigrants after they first came to New York and it also expounds how immigrants adapted themselves an...
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