Latin American migrations to the U.S. Heartland : changing social landscapes in Middle America /

Latin American migrations to the U.S. Heartland : changing social landscapes in Middle America /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:The working class in American history
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.
Economic history.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnic relations.
Foreign workers.
Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions.
Immigrants.
Latin Americans -- Social conditions.
Social change.
Social conditions.
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.
Latin America.
United States -- West North Central States.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9131831
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Latin American migrations to the US heartland
Other authors / contributors:Allegro, Linda.
Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958-
ISBN:0252094921 (electronic bk.)
9780252094927 (electronic bk.)
9780252037665 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0252037669 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Other form:Original 9780252037665 0252037669
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Heartland north, heartland south / Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood
  • Part I. 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
  • Part II. 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
  • Part III. 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
  • Part IV. 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
  • Part V. Religion and migrant communities
  • "They cling to guns or religion" : Pennsylvania towns put faith in anti-immigrant ordinances / Jane Juffer
  • Part VI. 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.

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