Immigrants outside megalopolis : ethnic transformation in the heartland / edited by Richard C. Jones...
Immigrants outside megalopolis : ethnic transformation in the heartland / edited by Richard C. Jones...
Immigrants outside megalopolis : ethnic transformation in the heartland / edited by Richard C. Jones.
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Publisher
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008.
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N305.90691/ 31
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 244 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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...
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Publisher
Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
c2008.
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Summary
"The booming 1990s saw a new demographic pattern emerging in the United States - the shift of immigrants toward smaller towns and metropolitan areas in ethnically homogenous (or traditionally bicultural) areas. These places offer growing, specialized economies in need of unskilled or semiskilled (and occasionally skilled) labor."
"Immigrants Outside Megalopolis documents this trend with case studies including Hmong in Wisconsin; Iranians in Iowa; Mexicans in Kansas, North Carolina, southern Texas, and Colorado; Vietnamese in coastal Louisiana; Cubans in Arizona; Bosnians in upstate New York; Asian Indians in northern Texas; and Ukrainians and Russians in the Willamette Vall...
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Immigrants outside megalopolis : ethnic transformation in the heartland / edited by Richard C. Jones.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2008.
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N305.90691/ 31
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74VM8j5Q5ywX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8j5Q5ywX
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ISBN
0739119192 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739119198 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
305.9069120973
MMS ID
991000269049702626
