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Titolo |
Latin American migrations to the U.S. heartland : changing social landscapes in Middle America / / edited by Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood |
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Urbana, Ill., : University of Illinois Press, c2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (345 p.) |
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Collana |
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The working class in American history |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AllegroLinda |
WoodAndrew Grant <1958-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hispanic Americans - West North Central States - Social conditions |
Latin Americans - West North Central States - Social conditions |
Immigrants - West North Central States |
Foreign workers - West North Central States |
Social change - West North Central States |
West North Central States Social conditions |
West North Central States Ethnic relations |
West North Central States Economic conditions |
Latin America Emigration and immigration |
West North Central States Emigration and immigration |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Heartland north, heartland south / Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. Transnational identities and new landscapes of home -- |
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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 -- Part IV. 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 -- Part V. Religion and migrant communities -- "They cling to guns or religion" : Pennsylvania towns put faith in anti-immigrant ordinances / Jane Juffer -- Part VI. 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 labour force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. |
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