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Title Latin American migrations to the U.S. Heartland : changing social landscapes in Middle America / edited by Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 319 pages) : illustrations, graphs
Series The working class in American history
Working class in American history.
Contents Introduction : Heartland north, heartland south / Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Religion and migrant communities. "They cling to guns or religion" : Pennsylvania towns put faith in anti-immigrant ordinances / Jane Juffer -- 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
Summary 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 labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies.
Economic history
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Foreign workers
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions
Immigrants
Latin Americans -- Social conditions
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT 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
Subject Latin America
United States -- West North Central States
Form Electronic book
Author Allegro, Linda, editor.
Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958- editor.
LC no. 2012048319
ISBN 0252094921
9780252094927
Other Titles Latin American migrations to the US heartland