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Voices from the nueva frontera : Latino immigration in Dalton, Georgia /

The Dalton-Whit?eld County area of Georgia has one of the highest concentrations of Latino residents in the southeastern United States. In 2006, a Washington Post article referred to the carpet-manufacturing city of Dalton as a "U.S. border town," even though the community lies more than t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davis, Donald Edward
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2009.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The Dalton-Whit?eld County area of Georgia has one of the highest concentrations of Latino residents in the southeastern United States. In 2006, a Washington Post article referred to the carpet-manufacturing city of Dalton as a "U.S. border town," even though the community lies more than twelve hundred miles from Mexico. Voices from the Nueva Frontera explores this phenomenon, providing an in-depth picture of Latino immigration and dispersal in rural America along with a framework for understanding the economic integration of the South with Latin America. Voices from the Nueva Frontera sheds n
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781572336841
1572336846