Title: Immigrants outside megalopolis : ethnic transformation in the heartland /
Authors: Jones, Richard C., 1942-
Publisher: Lexington Books,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Small cities United States.; United States Emigration and immigration.; United States Population.
Contents: Immigrants transform and are transformed by the U.S. heartland / Richard C. Jones -- Slavic dreams : post Soviet refugee identity and adaptation in Portland, Oregon / Susan Hardwick -- Émigrés outside Miami : the Cuban experience in metropolitan Phoenix / Emily Skop -- Trying to be authentic, but not too authentic : second generation Hindu Americans in Dallas, Texas / Pawan Dhingra -- Spatial disjunctures and division in the new west : Latino immigration to Leadville, Colorado / Nancy A. Hiemstra -- Meatpacking and Mexicans on the high plains : from minority to majority in Garden City, Kansas / Donald Stull and Michael Broadway -- Cultural retrenchment and economic marginality : Mexican immigrants in San Antonio / Richard C. Jones -- Spaces and places of adaptation in an ethnic Vietnamese cluster in New Orleans, Louisiana / Christopher Airriess -- The quest for home : Sheboygan's Hmong population / Karl Byrand -- Getting settled in the heartland : community formation among first- and second-generation Iranians in Iowa City, Iowa / Mohammad Chaichian -- The untraditional geography of Hispanic settlement in a new South city : Charlotte, North Carolina / Heather A. Smith -- 'An anchor of hope' : refugees in Utica, New York / Ellen Percy Kraly -- The contributions of immigrants : from megalopolis to mainstream / Richard C. Jones.