Reimagining the Immigrant [electronic resource] : The Accommodation of Mexican Immigrants in Rural America /
Haley, B.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-231) and index.
Introduction -- The changing farm and town -- Making social categories from local roots and class -- The rhetoric and practice of ethnicity -- Institutions, leadership, and community -- "we want our town back!" -- Sources of local integration -- The Delictum Vineyards scandal and its aftermath -- Immigration's dual outcomes.
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.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Economic sociology.
Emigration and immigration.
Anthropology.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology, general.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Migration.
Anthropology.