New destination dreaming
Subtitle: immigration, race, and legal status in the rural American South
By: Helen B. Marrow
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780804773072; 9780804773089
Subjects: Race relations; Immigrants; Social conditions; Hispanic Americans; Latin Americans; Emigration and immigration; Rural conditions; Legal status, laws
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-361) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : immigrant incorporation in rural new destinations; title: "I'm a person who likes tranquility a lot" : Southern region and rural space in the Hispanic newcomer experience; title: "The Americans give you the opportunity to work and grow" : stability and short-distance mobility in the new rural Southern economy; title: "It's not like if you work in a big place and you can move up the ladder" : insecurity and stagnation in the old rural Southern economy; title: "The Blacks don't like us, and it's worse than with the Whites" : class structure, Black population size, and the threat of social leapfrogging; title: "The White Americans have always been very friendly" : discrimination, racial expectations, and moral hierarchies in the Black-White binary; title: "We're here to serve our residents" : service-inspired responsiveness to Hispanic newcomers in education and health; title: "If I didn't trust you before, I don't even want to see you now" : regulatory ambivalence in law enforcement and the courts; title: Conclusion : promises and pitfalls in the rural American South.