Domenic Vitiello

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 Domenic Vitiello is Associate Professor of City Planning and Urban Studies. He teaches The Immigrant City for undergraduates and Migration and Development for graduate students.  His recent research has focused on the destruction and preservation of Chinatowns in the United States and Canada; migrant-led transnational development in the U.S., Mexico, and West Africa; and migrant communities’ engagement in urban agriculture around the world.  His most recent book is an edited volume with Tom Sugrue, Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States.  Domenic is currently writing a book titled The Sanctuary City that examines Central American, Southeast Asian, African, Arab, and Mexican immigration to Philadelphia since the 1970s.