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Book/Printed Material Migration narratives : diverging stories in schools, churches, and civic institutions

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Title

  • Migration narratives : diverging stories in schools, churches, and civic institutions

Summary

  • "Migration Narratives presents an ethnographic study of an American town that recently became home to thousands of Mexican migrants, with the Mexican population rising from 125 in 1990 to slightly under 10,000 in 2016. Through interviews with residents, the book focuses on key educational, religious, and civic institutions that shape and are shaped by the realities of Mexican immigrants. Focusing on African American, Mexican, Irish and Italian communities, the authors describe how interethnic relations played a central role in newcomers' pathways and draw links between the town's earlier cycles of migration. The town represents similar communities across the USA and around the world that have received large numbers of immigrants in a short time. The purpose of the book is to document the complexities that migrants and hosts experience and to suggest ways in which policy-makers, researchers, educators and communities can respond intelligently to politically-motivated stories that oversimplify migration across the contemporary world. The study has been documented in a short film which can viewed here: www.adelantethefilm.com"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Wortham, Stanton, 1963- author
  • Clonan-Roy, Katherine, author
  • Nichols, Briana, author
  • Rhodes, Catherine Rebecca, author

Created / Published

  • London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Contents

  • Intersecting Migrant Histories -- Schools: Three Diverging Individual Mexican Pathways -- Churches: An Emerging Irish-Mexican Community -- Neighborhoods: Diverging Stories of Decline -- Public Spaces: Victims, Revitalizers and Competition -- Community Organizations: Three Imagined Mexican Pathways -- Powerful, Limited Stories.

Headings

  • -  African Americans--Relations with Mexican Americans
  • -  Immigrants--United States--Social conditions--Longitudinal studies
  • -  Mexicans--United States--Social conditions--Longitudinal studies
  • -  United States--Race relations--Longitudinal studies

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E184.M5

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020023059

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Wortham, Stanton, Author, Katherine Clonan-Roy, Briana Nichols, and Catherine Rebecca Rhodes. Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020023059/.

APA citation style:

Wortham, S., Clonan-Roy, K., Nichols, B. & Rhodes, C. R. (2020) Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020023059/.

MLA citation style:

Wortham, Stanton, Author, et al. Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020023059/>.