Village of Immigrants : : Latinos in an Emerging America / / Diana R. Gordon.
Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, has become an exemplar of a little-noted national trend-immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants, Diana R. Gordon illustrates how small-town Americ...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Rivergate Regionals Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- PART I. A Village Transformed
- 1. Hola, Greenport
- Profile: Lost and Found
- PART II. Absorbing Immigrants since 1840
- 2. The European Legacy
- 3. Boom, Bust, and Back Again
- 4. Migration from Within
- 5. Is Demographics Destiny?
- PART III. Classroom Challenges
- 6. Schooling New Citizens
- Profile: Edgar and the Blue Mosque
- PART IV. Settling In
- 7. Housing or Houses?
- Profile: Sofia's Quest
- PART V. Toward Community Health
- 8. Cobbled Care
- Profile: An Accidental Nurse
- PART VI. Dilemmas of Control
- 9. Legal Limbo
- Profile: Deferred and Delivered
- PART VII. Working Lives
- 10. Where There's a Will, There's a Job (or Two)
- Profile: Sacrifice and Success
- PART VIII. What Next?
- Profile: The New American
- 11. A Small-Town Model?
- Notes
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR