Immigrants in the far West
Subtitle: historical identities and experiences
By: edited by Jessie L. Embry and Brian Q. Cannon
Contributors: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9781607813804; 9781607813811
Subjects: Immigrants; West (U.S.); History; Emigration and immigration; Acculturation; Cultural pluralism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Description: "This book is a collection of essays showcasing cutting-edge research and innovative approaches that a new generation of scholars is bringing to the study of immigration in the American West. Often overlooked in general studies of immigration, the western United States has been and is an important destination for immigrants. The unique combination of ethnicities and races in the West, combined with political and economic peculiarities, has given the region an immigration narrative that departs significantly from that of the East and Midwest. This volume explores facets of this narrative with case studies that reveal how immigration in the American West has influenced the region's development culturally, economically, socially, and politically. Contributors offer historical narrative and theory to illuminate factors that have galvanized immigration and the ways that agency, cultural resources, institutions, and societal attitudes have shaped immigrant experiences. With chapters written by scholars from multiple fields, the book's interdisciplinary framework will make it of interest to readers from a variety of backgrounds"--
Notes: "A Project of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-453) and index.
Table of contents: title: Immigrants and Colonists : Three Accounts of Mexican California / Brett Garcia Myhren; title: Hell and Heaven on Wheels : Mormons, Immigrants, and the (Re)construction of American Progress and Masculinity on the Transcontinental Railroad / Ryan Dearinger; title: Japanese Immigrants and the Dillingham Commission : Federal Immigration Policy and the American West / Katherine Benton-Cohen; title: The Specter of Nations : Immigration, Gothicism, and Transnational Mimicry in Two Post-Revolutionary Mexican American Novels / D. Seth Horton; title: Converting the Civilizing Mission : American Catholics, Mexican Immigrants, and the Taming of the West in the Early Twentieth Century / Anne M. Martínez; title: "Something Fearful and Wonderful" : Immigrant Children, Americanization, and Public Education in Los Angeles, 1900-1929 / Eileen V. Wallis; title: Locally Made : Immigrant Whiteness in Montana's Copper Communities / Matthew Basso; title: Social Capital and Frontier Community Building : The Case of Immigrant Jews in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles / Karen S. Wilson; title: Greening the Silver Saloon : Building Irish Community in the Mining West / Michelle A. Charest; title: "Saints in the Pit" : Mormon Colliers in Britain and the Intermountain West / Mindi Sitterud-McCluskey; title: The Frontier Thesis in Transnational Migration : The U.S. West in the Making of Italy Abroad / Mark I. Choate; title: Outlanders and Inlanders : Boer Colonization in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1902-1905 / Andrew Offenburger; title: The Spatial Distribution of Hispanics in the Mountain West, 1970-2010 / J. Matthew Shumway; title: Hispanic Mormon Immigrants in Provo, Utah / Jessie L. Embry and Meisha Slight.