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Reimagining the immigrant : the accommodation of Mexican immigrants in rural America / Brian D. Haley

1st ed

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Online-Ressource (xiv, 239 p) : ill., maps ; 22 cm

Englisch

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction; Two: The Changing Farm and Town; Three: Making Social Categories from Local Roots and Class; Four: The Rhetoric and Practice of Ethnicity; Five: Institutions, Leadership, and Community; Six: ""We Want Our Town Back!""; Seven: Sources of Local Integration; Eight: The Delictum Vineyards Scandal and Its Aftermath; Nine: Immigration's Dual Outcomes; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-231) and index

Print version: Reimagining the Immigrant : The Accommodation of Mexican Immigrants in Rural America

0-230-61602-X (alk. paper); 978-0-230-61602-8 ( : alk. paper)

978-0-230-61602-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

2010

Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

978-0-230-10419-8 (e-book)

HD1527.C2

305.868/72079478     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: San Luis Obispo County (Calif.) -- Race relations ; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration ; United States -- Emigration and immigration ; Migrant agricultural laborers -- California -- San Luis Obispo County -- Social conditions ; Mexicans -- California -- San Luis Obispo County -- Social conditions ; San Luis Obispo County (Calif.) -- Rural conditions ; Agriculture -- Social aspects -- California -- San Luis Obispo County ; Ethnology

Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in America. This groundbreaking book sheds 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