Latin American Migrations to the U. S. Heartland : Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Heartland North, Heartland South -- Part I: Geographies in Historical Perspective -- Chapter 1. Mexicans in the United States: A Longer View -- Chapter 2. Betabeleros and the Western Nebraska Sugar Industry: An Early-Twentieth-Century History -- Chapter 3. Latinos and the Churches in Idaho, 1950-2000 -- Part II: Contesting Policy and Legal Boundaries -- Chapter 4. Seeing No Evil: The H2A Guest-Worker Program and State-Mediated Labor Exploitation -- Chapter 5. On Removing Migrant Labor in a Right-to-Work State: The Failure of Employer Sanctions -- Part III: Transnational Identities and New Landscapes of Home -- Chapter 6. Rooted/Uprooted: Place, Policy, and Salvadoran Transnational Identities in Rural Arkansas -- Chapter 7. Contesting Diversity and Community within Postville, Iowa: "Hometown to the World" -- Part IV: Media and Reimagined Sites of Accommodation and Contestation -- Chapter 8. Humanizing Latino Newcomers in the "No Coast" Region -- Chapter 9. Immigrant Integration and the Changing Public Discourse: The Case of Emporia, Kansas -- Part V: Religion and Migrant Communities -- Chapter 10. "They Cling to Guns or Religion": Pennsylvania Towns Put Faith in Anti-immigrant -- Part VI: Demographics -- Chapter 11. Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Demographic and Economic Activity -- Conclusion: Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Reshaping Communities, Redrawing -- Contributors -- Index.

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