Village of immigrants : Latinos in an emerging America / Diana R. Gordon.
Gordon, Diana R.
2015
F129.G714 G67 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Village of immigrants : Latinos in an emerging America / Diana R. Gordon.
Author Gordon, Diana R.
ISBN 9780813575902 hardcover alkaline paper
0813575907 hardcover alkaline paper
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description xi, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number F129.G714 G67 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.9/069120974721
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Rivergate regionals.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Part I. A Village Transformed
Hola, Greenport
Lost and Found
Part II. Absorbing Immigrants since 1840
The European Legacy
Boom, Bust and Back Again
Migration from Within
Is Demographics Destiny?
Part III. Classroom Challenges
Schooling New Citizens
Edgar and the Blue Mosque
Part IV. Settling In
Housing or Houses?
Sofia's Quest
Part V. Toward Community Health
Cobbled Care
An Accidental Nurse
Part VI. Dilemmas of Control
Legal Limbo
Deferred and Delivered
Part VII. Working Lives
Where There's a Will There's a Job (or Two)
Sacrifice and Success
Part VIII. What Next?
The New American
A Small-Town Model?

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