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Immigrants Outside Megalopolis: Ethnic Transformation in the Heartland

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The booming 1990s saw a new demographic pattern emerging in the United States—the shift of immigrants toward smaller towns and metropolitan areas in ethnically homogenous (or traditionally bicultural) areas. These places offer growing, specialized economies in need of unskilled or semi-skilled (and occasionally skilled) labor; they also offer, for some immigrants, a favorable physical and social climate. Immigrants Outside Megalopolis documents this trend with case studies including Hmong in Wisconsin, Iranians in Iowa, Mexicans in Kansas and Colorado, Vietnamese in coastal Louisiana, Mexicans in North Carolina and south Texas, Cubans in Arizona, Bosnians in upstate New York, Asian ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
332
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739119198
SKU
V9780739119198
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About Richard C. Jones
Richard C. Jones is professor of geography in the department of political science and geography at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Reviews for Immigrants Outside Megalopolis: Ethnic Transformation in the Heartland
In this extremely informative collection, Richard Jones's objective to provide a wider, comparative examination of the adjustment experiences of new immigrant groups outside the country's traditional destination metropolis is not only successful, it evenconfounds his own somewhat skeptical expectations. As this collection documents, in both the East and West, non-megalopolitan America is adjusting to the presence of ... Read more

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