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Author: Mark Wyman Publisher: SIU Press ISBN: 0809335565 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1. The Prairie as a Land of Hope -- 2. From the Irish Island -- 3. Auswanderers -- 4. Needed: Laborers -- 5. Saving ""This Dark Valley""--6. A Land without a Sabbath -- 7. Whiskey and Lager Bier -- 8. The Politicians -- Epilogue -- Sources -- Index -- Back Cover
Author: Victor Davis Hanson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 172
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This book is part history, part political analysis and part memoir. It is an intensely personal book about what has changed in California over the last quarter century.
Author: Heide Castañeda Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 1503607925 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 382
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Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in America—the impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castañeda reveals the trauma, distress, and inequalities that occur daily, alongside the stratification of particular family members' access to resources like education, employment, and health care. She also paints a vivid picture of the resilience, resistance, creative responses, and solidarity between parents and children, siblings, and other kin. Castañeda's innovative ethnography combines fieldwork with individuals and family groups to paint a full picture of the experiences of mixed-status families as they navigate the emotional, social, political, and medical difficulties that inevitably arise when at least one family member lacks legal status. Exposing the extreme conditions in the heavily-regulated U.S./Mexico borderlands, this book presents a portentous vision of how the further encroachment of immigration enforcement would affect millions of mixed-status families throughout the country.
Author: Mark Wyman Publisher: SIU Press ISBN: 0809335573 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 258
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Thousands of newcomers flocked into the Upper Mississippi country in the decades leading up to the Civil War. Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota received immigrants from most areas of Europe, as well as Americans from the Upper South, New England, and the Middle Atlantic states. They all carried with them religious beliefs, experiences, and expectations that differed widely, attitudes and opinions which often threw them into conflict with each other. Drawing extensively on family letters sent home to Europe, missionary reports, employment records, and other diverse materials from 1830 to 1860, Wyman shows the interplay between the major groups traveling the roads and waterways of the Upper Mississippi Valley during those crucial decades. The result is a lively, richly illustrated account that will help Americans everywhere better understand their diverse heritage and the environment in which their family trees took root. A new preface to this paperback edition helps to bring the scholarship up to date.
Author: Daniel G. Groody Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN: 0742571882 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 216
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This is a powerful, first-hand account of a religious ministry that reaches out to console, heal, and build the lives of poor and desperate immigrants who come to the United States in search of a better life. Daniel G. Groody talked with immigration officials, 'coyote' smugglers, and immigrants in detention centers and those working in the fields. The picture that emerges starkly contrasts with the negative stereotypes about Mexican immigrants: Groody discovered insights into God, family, values, suffering, faith, and hope that offer a treasury of spiritual knowledge helpful to anyone, even those who are materially comfortable but spiritually empty. This book has a message that reaches across borders, divisions, and preconceptions; it reaches all the way to the heart.
Author: Christian Zlolniski Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520939174 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California’s Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley’s low-wage jobs. Christian Zlolniski’s on-the-ground investigation demonstrates how global forces have incorporated these workers as an integral part of the economy through subcontracting and other flexible labor practices and explores how these labor practices have in turn affected working conditions and workers’ daily lives. In Zlolniski’s analysis, these immigrants do not emerge merely as victims of a harsh economy; despite the obstacles they face, they are transforming labor and community politics, infusing new blood into labor unions, and challenging exclusionary notions of civic and political membership. This richly textured and complex portrait of one community opens a window onto the future of Mexican and other Latino immigrants in the new U.S. economy.
Author: Lori A. Flores Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300216386 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 363
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Known as “The Salad Bowl of the World,” California’s Salinas Valley became an agricultural empire due to the toil of diverse farmworkers, including Latinos. A sweeping critical history of how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants organized for their rights in the decades leading up to the seminal strikes led by Cesar Chavez, this important work also looks closely at how different groups of Mexicans—U.S. born, bracero, and undocumented—confronted and interacted with one another during this period. An incisive study of labor, migration, race, gender, citizenship, and class, Lori Flores’s first book offers crucial insights for today’s ever-growing U.S. Latino demographic, the farmworker rights movement, and future immigration policy.
Author: Daniel Denvir Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1786637138 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 353
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American history told from the vantage of immigration politics It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xenophobia. Among his first acts on taking office was to block foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. But although his actions may often seem unprecedented, they are not as unusual as many people believe. This story doesn’t begin with Trump. For decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have employed xenophobic ideas and policies, declaring time and again that “illegal immigration” is a threat to the nation’s security, wellbeing, and future. The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people, Trump began to look reasonable. As Daniel Denvir argues, issues as diverse as austerity economics, free trade, mass incarceration, the drug war, the contours of the post 9/11 security state, and, yes, Donald Trump and the Alt-Right movement are united by the ideology of nativism, which binds together assorted anxieties and concerns into a ruthless political project. All-American Nativism provides a powerful and impressively researched account of the long but often forgotten history that gave us Donald Trump.
Author: J. Edward Taylor Publisher: The Urban Insitute ISBN: 9780877666707 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 132
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This book examines the socioeconomic links among farm employment, immigration, and welfare use not only within California's Central Valley, but also along the state's Central Coast and in its southern regions. Using U.S. Census data and information collected from extensive community-level site visits, the authors find that immigration, largely from rural Mexico, is changing the face of rural California, increasing levels of population, poverty, and public service demands. The authors caution that upward mobility among these immigrant workers may be limited and that recent legislative changes are reducing the public resources available to help newcomers adjust, just as the number of immigrants is increasing.
Author: Richard Erickson Publisher: ISBN: 9780997063202 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Between 1890 and 1930, approximately 1100 Nordic immigrants settled into or moved through the Independence Valley and the areas around Rochester, Washington. About 40% were Swedish speaking Finns, about 27 % were Finnish speaking Finns, 23% were Swedish, 8% were Norwegian and 2% were Danish. This book describes the settlement of the area and the assimilation of the immigrants into a new culture. Each immigrant, as identified through numerous sources, is listed. Included is a description of the various cultures, customs and daily life activities. The review of the community history focuses on schools, churches, cemeteries, local farms, logging and sawmills and social and volunteer organizations. A few stories from local immigrant families describe their personal experiences growing up in the area. The objective of the book is to provide an historical perspective of families settling into a new land far from their Nordic roots.
Author: Mark Wyman
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Author: Heide Castañeda
Author: Mark Wyman
Author: Daniel G. Groody
Author: Christian Zlolniski
Author: Lori A. Flores
Author: Karin Sveen
Author: Daniel Denvir
Author: J. Edward Taylor
Author: Richard Erickson