04683nam 2200745 a 450 991078831950332120220425160149.00-252-09492-1(CKB)3170000000060148(EBL)3414245(SSID)ssj0000891827(PQKBManifestationID)11487626(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000891827(PQKBWorkID)10892449(PQKB)10939175(StDuBDS)EDZ0000455143(OCoLC)843860774(MdBmJHUP)muse25253(Au-PeEL)EBL3414245(CaPaEBR)ebr10697719(CaONFJC)MIL489691(MiAaPQ)EBC3414245(EXLCZ)99317000000006014820130527d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLatin American migrations to the U.S. heartland changing social landscapes in Middle America /edited by Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant WoodUrbana, Ill. University of Illinois Pressc20131 online resource (345 p.)The working class in American historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-252-08435-7 0-252-03766-9 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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 -- 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.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.Working Class in American HistoryHispanic AmericansWest North Central StatesSocial conditionsLatin AmericansWest North Central StatesSocial conditionsImmigrantsWest North Central StatesForeign workersWest North Central StatesSocial changeWest North Central StatesWest North Central StatesSocial conditionsWest North Central StatesEthnic relationsWest North Central StatesEconomic conditionsLatin AmericaEmigration and immigrationWest North Central StatesEmigration and immigrationHispanic AmericansSocial conditions.Latin AmericansSocial conditions.ImmigrantsForeign workersSocial change305.868/077Allegro Linda1513203Wood Andrew Grant1958-1081826MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788319503321Latin American migrations to the U.S. heartland3747507UNINA