Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland : Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America /

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Responding to inaccuracies concerning Latino immigrants in the United States as well as an anti-immigrant strain in the American psyche, this collection of essays examines the movement of the Latin American labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958- (Editor ), Allegro, Linda (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Social change.
Latin Americans > Social conditions.
Immigrants.
Hispanic Americans > Social conditions.
Foreign workers.
Ethnic relations.
Emigration and immigration.
Economic history.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Social change > West North Central States.
Foreign workers > West North Central States.
Immigrants > West North Central States.
Latin Americans > West North Central States > Social conditions.
Hispanic Americans > West North Central States > Social conditions.
United States > West North Central States.
Latin America.
Amerique latine > Émigration et immigration.
West North Central States > Emigration and immigration.
Latin America > Emigration and immigration.
West North Central States > Economic conditions.
West North Central States > Ethnic relations.
West North Central States > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Heartland north, heartland south / Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood
  • Geographies in historical perspective. Mexicans in the United States : a longer view / Andrew Grant Wood ; Betabeleros and the western Nebraska sugar industry : an early-twentieth-century history / Tisa M. Anders ; Latinos and the churches in Idaho, 1950-2000 / Errol D. Jones
  • Contesting policy and legal boundaries. Seeing no evil : the H2A guest-worker program and state-mediated labor exploitation in rural North Carolina / Sandy Smith-Nonini ; On removing migrant labor in a right-to-work state : the failure of employer sanctions in Oklahoma / Linda Allegro
  • Transnational identities and new landscapes of home. Rooted/uprooted : place, policy, and Salvadoran transnational identities in rural Arkansas / Miranda Cady Hallett ; Contesting diversity and community within Postville, Iowa : "Hometown to the world" / Jennifer F. Reynolds and Caitlin Didier
  • Media and reimagined sites of accommodation and contestation. Humanizing Latino newcomers in the "No Coast" region / Edmund T. Hamann with Jenelle Reeves ; Immigrant integration and the changing public discourse : the case of Emporia, Kansas / László J. Kulcsár and Albert Iaroi
  • Religion and migrant communities. "They cling to guns or religion" : Pennsylvania towns put faith in anti-immigrant ordinances / Jane Juffer
  • Demographics. Latin American migrations to the U.S. heartland : demographic and economic activity in six heartland states, 2000-2007 / Scott Carter
  • Conclusion: Latin American migrations to the U.S. heartland : reshaping communities, redrawing boundaries / Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood.

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