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Author Santos Gómez, Hugo, author

Title Immigrant farmworkers and citizenship in rural California : playing soccer in the San Joaquin Valley / Hugo Santos-Gomez
Published El Paso [Texas] : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages .)
Series The new Americans : recent immigration and American society
New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. I From Social Deserts to Soccer Fields: An Introduction -- ch. II Land, Water, and Labor: Re-intensification of Agriculture and Farmworkers Settlement -- ch. III Three Tales of Community Building: from the Family Farm Town to the Farmworker Community -- ch. IV Playing Soccer, Practicing Citizenship -- ch. V Playing Soccer Rhetoric(s): Masculinity, Immigration, Education -- ch. VI Three Tales of Soccer and Public Space -- ch. VII Citizenship, Soccer, and Ethnography
Summary Santos-Gomez contends that soccer in the San Joaquin Valley constitutes a manifestation of a complex process by which immigrant farmworkers are carving out spaces of civic engagement, and more broadly speaking, practicing novel forms of substantial citizenship. Simultaneously, these processes constitute an expression of profound changes; on the one hand, the late re-intensification of California agriculture with increasing demand s of human labor for extended periods of time and, on the other, the increasing process of settling down of farmworkers that such re-intensification has favored, a la
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Soccer -- Social aspects -- California -- San Joaquin Valley
Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- California -- San Joaquin Valley -- Social conditions
Community life -- California -- San Joaquin Valley
Community development -- California -- San Joaquin Valley
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- social conditions
Community development
Community life
Soccer -- Social aspects
California -- San Joaquin Valley
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1593327390
9781593327392