1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) : illustrations, maps, digital
Contents
The changing farm and town -- Making social categories from local roots and class -- The rhetoric and practice of ethnicity -- Institutions, leadership, and community -- "we want our town back!" -- Sources of local integration -- The Delictum Vineyards scandal and its aftermath -- Immigration's dual outcomes
Summary
Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in California. Bolstered by ethnographic detail, Haley describes the complex interaction between the farm labor market, migration, and settlement alternatives available to farm workers, shedding light on the coexisting practices of discrimination and accommodation and the ways in which immigrants and established residents reimagine ethnic identity in a more positive light
