Migration narratives : diverging stories in schools, churches, and civic institutions / Stanton Wortham [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wortham, Stanton, 1963- author.

Nichols, Briana, author.

Clonan-Roy, Katherine, author.

Rhodes, Catherine Rebecca, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexicans--United States--Social conditions--Longitudinal studies.

Mexicans.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions--Longitudinal studies.

Immigrants.

African Americans--Relations with Mexican Americans.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations--Longitudinal studies.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"Migration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. Through interviews with residents, the book focuses on key educational, religious, and civic institutions that shape and are shaped by the realities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on African American, Mexican, Irish and Italian communities, the authors describe how interethnic relations played a central role in newcomers' pathways and draw links between the town's earlier cycles of migration. The town represents similar communities across the USA and around the world that have received large numbers of immigrants in a short time. The purpose of the book is to document the complexities that migrants and hosts experience and to suggest ways in which policy-makers, researchers, educators and communities can respond intelligently to politically-motivated stories that oversimplify migration across the contemporary world. The study has been documented in a short film which can viewed here: www.adelantethefilm.com"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intersecting Migrant Histories

Schools: Three Diverging Individual Mexican Pathways

Churches: An Emerging Irish-Mexican Community

Neighborhoods: Diverging Stories of Decline

Public Spaces: Victims, Revitalizers and Competition

Community Organizations: Three Imagined Mexican Pathways

Powerful, Limited Stories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9781350181335

1350181331

OCLC:

1157507187