Reimagining the immigrant : the accommodation of Mexican immigrants in rural America /

Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in California. Bolstered by ethnographic detail, Haley describes the complex interaction between the farm labor market, migration, and settlement alternatives available to farm worke...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Haley, Brian D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Migrant agricultural laborers > California > San Luis Obispo County > Social conditions.
Mexicans > California > San Luis Obispo County > Social conditions.
Agriculture > Social aspects > California > San Luis Obispo County.
Travailleurs agricoles migrants > Californie > San Luis Obispo (Comté) > Conditions sociales.
Mexicains > Californie > San Luis Obispo (Comté) > Conditions sociales.
Agriculture > Aspect social > Californie > San Luis Obispo (Comté)
Migration, immigration & emigration > Mexico > USA.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Society.
Agriculture > Social aspects
Emigration and immigration
Mexicans > Social conditions
Migrant agricultural laborers > Social conditions
Race relations
Rural conditions
Landarbeiter
Einwanderung
Auswanderung
San Luis Obispo County (Calif.) > Rural conditions.
San Luis Obispo County (Calif.) > Race relations.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration.
United States > Emigration and immigration.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration.
California > San Luis Obispo County
Mexico
United States
Mexiko
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The changing farm and town
  • Making social categories from local roots and class
  • The rhetoric and practice of ethnicity
  • Institutions, leadership, and community
  • "we want our town back!"
  • Sources of local integration
  • The Delictum Vineyards scandal and its aftermath
  • Immigration's dual outcomes.

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