Latin American migrations to the U.S. heartland : changing social landscapes in Middle America / edited by Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allegro, Linda.

Wood, Andrew Grant, 1958-

Series:

Working Class in American History

The working class in American history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans--West North Central States--Social conditions.

Hispanic Americans.

Latin Americans--West North Central States--Social conditions.

Latin Americans.

Immigrants--West North Central States.

Immigrants.

Foreign workers--West North Central States.

Foreign workers.

Social change--West North Central States.

Social change.

West North Central States--Social conditions.

West North Central States.

West North Central States--Ethnic relations.

West North Central States--Economic conditions.

Latin America--Emigration and immigration.

Latin America.

West North Central States--Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

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 labour force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Descripion based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 27, 2013).

ISBN:

0-252-09492-1

OCLC:

843860774