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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
©2009.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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 |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) : illustrations, map |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781572336841 1572336846 |