Gordon Diana R. Gordon

Village of Immigrants (eBook, PDF)

Latinos in an Emerging America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 America has been revitalized by the arrival of these immigrants in Greenport, where she lives. Greenport today boasts a population that is one-third Hispanic. Gordon contends that these immigrants have effectively saved the town s economy by taking low-skill jobs, increasing the tax base, filling local schools, and patronizing local businesses. Greenport s seaside beauty still attracts summer tourists, but it is only with the support of the local Latino workforce that elegant restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts are able to serve these visitors. For Gordon the picture is complex, because the wave of immigrants also presents the town with challenges to its services and institutions. Gordon s portraits of local immigrants capture the positive and the negative, with a cast of characters ranging from a Guatemalan mother of three, including one child who is profoundly disabled, to a Colombian house painter with a successful business who cannot become licensed because he remains undocumented. Village of Immigrants weaves together these people s stories, fears, and dreams to reveal an environment plagued by threats of deportation, debts owed to coyotes, low wages, and the other bleak realities that shape the immigrant experience even in the charming seaport town of Greenport. A timely contribution to the national dialogue on immigration, Gordon s book shows the pivotal role the American small town plays in the ongoing American immigrant story as well as how this booming population is shaping and reviving rural communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 273
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813575926
• Artikelnr.: 72472586

Autorenporträt

Gordon, Diana R

Inhaltsangabe

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. Now What?
Profile  The New American
11        A Small-Town Model?
Notes
Index