Introduction: Heartland north, heartland south / Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood
Part I. Geographies in historical perspective
Mexicans in the United States : a longer view / Andrew Grant Wood
Betabeleros and the western Nebraska sugar industry : an early-twentieth-century history / Tisa M. Anders
Latinos and the churches in Idaho, 1950-2000 / Errol D. Jones
Part II. Contesting policy and legal boundaries
Seeing no evil : the H2A guest-worker program and state-mediated labor exploitation in rural North Carolina / Sandy Smith-Nonini
On removing migrant labor in a right-to-work state : the failure of employer sanctions in Oklahoma / Linda Allegro
Part III. Transnational identities and new landscapes of home
Rooted/uprooted : place, policy, and Salvadoran transnational identities in rural Arkansas / Miranda Cady Hallett
Contesting diversity and community within Postville, Iowa : "Hometown to the world" / Jennifer F. Reynolds and Caitlin Didier
Part IV. Media and reimagined sites of accommodation and contestation
Humanizing Latino newcomers in the "No Coast" region / Edmund T. Hamann with Jenelle Reeves
Immigrant integration and the changing public discourse : the case of Emporia, Kansas / László J. Kulcsár and Albert Iaroi
Part V. Religion and migrant communities
"They cling to guns or religion" : Pennsylvania towns put faith in anti-immigrant ordinances / Jane Juffer
Part VI. Demographics
Latin American migrations to the U.S. heartland : demographic and economic activity in six heartland states, 2000-2007 / Scott Carter
Conclusion: Latin American migrations to the U.S. heartland : reshaping communities, redrawing boundaries / Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood.