Voices from the nueva frontera: Latino immigration in Dalton, Georgia
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Knoxville University of Tennessee Press ©2009
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The new face of carpet / Thomas M. Deaton -- The economic impact / Aref A. Hervani -- The culture of the capital de las alfombras / Roschelle Bautista -- The religious response / Father Daniel Stack -- The public school response / Ken W. Ellinger -- The Georgia project / Jo-Anne Schick -- The state college / Monte Salyer -- The social problems / Donald E. Davis -- The social work agenda / David P. Boyle -- Conclusion: lessons of the nueva frontera
The Dalton-Whit?eld County area of Georgia has one of the highest concentrations of Latino residents in the southeastern United States. In 2006, a Washington Post article referred to the carpet-manufacturing city of Dalton as a "U.S. border town," even though the community lies more than twelve hundred miles from Mexico. Voices from the Nueva Frontera explores this phenomenon, providing an in-depth picture of Latino immigration and dispersal in rural America along with a framework for understanding the economic integration of the South with Latin America. Voices from the Nueva Frontera sheds n
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ISBN:1572336536
1572336846
9781572336537
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