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Author Goerman, Patricia L

Title The Promised Land? The Lives and Voices of Hispanic Immigrants in the New South
Published Hoboken : Routledge, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (170 pages)
Contents Front cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter One. Introduction: Hispanic Immigrants in the New South; Chapter Two. Central Virginia: A Promised Land for New Latino Immigrants?; Chapter Three. Troubles in the Promised Land: Complex Household Living as a Temporary Survival Strategy in Central Virginia; Chapter Four. Gendered Experiences of Work and Family Life of Immigrants in Central Virginia; Chapter Five. Permanent Settlement of a Temporary Stay? The Future of the Hispanic Community in Central Virginia; Chapter Six. Couclusion: The Promised Land as a Relative Concept
Summary Through analysis of interviews with 73 Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia, this book offers a look at the views and circumstances of immigrants. It provides an examination of the migration trend, and argues that important policy changes are needed to benefit and protect both the new arrivals and their wider communities
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Subject Hispanic Americans -- Virginia -- Social conditions
Hispanic Americans -- Virginia -- Economic conditions
Hispanic Americans -- Virginia -- Interviews
Immigrants -- Virginia -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- Virginia -- Economic conditions
Immigrants -- Virginia -- Interviews
Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans -- Economic conditions
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions
Immigrants
Immigrants -- Economic conditions
Immigrants -- Social conditions
SUBJECT Virginia -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Virginia -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Subject Virginia
Genre/Form Interviews
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203960226
020396022X
9781135516727
1135516723