06123nam 22008775 450 991079766070332120230124193327.00-8135-7592-310.36019/9780813575926(CKB)3710000000477975(EBL)4414558(SSID)ssj0001552412(PQKBManifestationID)16171102(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001552412(PQKBWorkID)14194219(PQKB)11473167(MiAaPQ)EBC4414558(OCoLC)921989062(MdBmJHUP)muse49259(DE-B1597)529281(DE-B1597)9780813575926(EXLCZ)99371000000047797520200229h20152015 fg engur|n|---|||||txtccrVillage of Immigrants Latinos in an Emerging America /Diana R. GordonNew Brunswick, NJ :Rutgers University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (272 p.)Rivergate Regionals CollectionIncludes index.0-8135-7590-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --CONTENTS --Preface --PART I. A Village Transformed --1. Hola, Greenport --Profile: Lost and Found --PART II. Absorbing Immigrants since 1840 --2. The European Legacy --3. Boom, Bust, and Back Again --4. Migration from Within --5. Is Demographics Destiny? --PART III. Classroom Challenges --6. Schooling New Citizens --Profile: Edgar and the Blue Mosque --PART IV. Settling In --7. Housing or Houses? --Profile: Sofia's Quest --PART V. Toward Community Health --8. Cobbled Care --Profile: An Accidental Nurse --PART VI. Dilemmas of Control --9. Legal Limbo --Profile: Deferred and Delivered --PART VII. Working Lives --10. Where There's a Will, There's a Job (or Two) --Profile: Sacrifice and Success --PART VIII. What Next? --Profile: The New American --11. A Small-Town Model? --Notes --Index --ABOUT THE AUTHORGreenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend-immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants, Diana R. Gordon illustrates how small-town America has been revitalized by the arrival of these immigrants in Greenport, where she lives. Greenport today boasts a population that is one-third Hispanic. Gordon contends that these immigrants have effectively saved the town's economy by taking low-skill jobs, increasing the tax base, filling local schools, and patronizing local businesses. Greenport's seaside beauty still attracts summer tourists, but it is only with the support of the local Latino workforce that elegant restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts are able to serve these visitors. For Gordon the picture is complex, because the wave of immigrants also presents the town with challenges to its services and institutions. Gordon's portraits of local immigrants capture the positive and the negative, with a cast of characters ranging from a Guatemalan mother of three, including one child who is profoundly disabled, to a Colombian house painter with a successful business who cannot become licensed because he remains undocumented. Village of Immigrants weaves together these people's stories, fears, and dreams to reveal an environment plagued by threats of deportation, debts owed to coyotes, low wages, and the other bleak realities that shape the immigrant experience-even in the charming seaport town of Greenport. A timely contribution to the national dialogue on immigration, Gordon's book shows the pivotal role the American small town plays in the ongoing American immigrant story-as well as how this booming population is shaping and reviving rural communities.Rivergate regionals.POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social PolicybisacshSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American StudiesbisacshBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & RegionalbisacshPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic PolicybisacshHISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)bisacshSOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & ImmigrationbisacshSocial changeNew York (State)GreenportWorking classNew York (State)GreenportBiographyImmigrantsNew York (State)GreenportBiographyHispanic AmericansNew York (State)GreenportBiographyWorking classNew York (State)GreenportSocial conditionsImmigrantsNew York (State)GreenportSocial conditionsHispanic AmericansNew York (State)GreenportSocial conditionsGreenport (N.Y.)Economic conditionsGreenport (N.Y.)BiographyGreenport (N.Y.)Ethnic relationsPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies.BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional.POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy.HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.Social changeWorking classImmigrantsHispanic AmericansWorking classSocial conditions.ImmigrantsSocial conditions.Hispanic AmericansSocial conditions.305.9/069120974721Gordon Diana R.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1084039DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910797660703321Village of Immigrants3834771UNINA