Race, Class, and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican Orlando
by Patricia Silver
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781477320457
Pub Date: April 15th, 2020
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
An in-depth look at an emerging Latino presence in Orlando, Florida, where Puerto Ricans and others navigate differences of race, class, and place of origin in their struggle for social, economic, and political belonging.
National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants
by Hilary Parsons Dick
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781477314029
Pub Date: May 1st, 2018
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
This innovative ethnography analyzes the discourse about Mexican-US migration in both a sending and a receiving community and shows how this discourse affects the lives and sense of national belonging of nonmigrants.
Through an unprecedented analysis of two crucial energy sectors, this book illuminates the economic and political factors that caused the United States and Mexico to develop an asymmetrical codependency that disproportionally benefits the United States.
This comprehensive study of five phases of Guatemalan migration—both Maya and ladino—to the United States from the late 1970s to the present illuminates the transregional experiences of those who pass through Mexico.
A Sociological Study of Anglo and Chicano Retardates
by Anne-Marie Henshel
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 9781477300046
Pub Date: July 3rd, 2014
Format: eBook
286 Pages
In The Forgotten Ones, originally published in 1972, Anne-Marie Henshel examines the lives of a group of persons living within the community who had been diagnosed at one time or another as mentally...
Based on extensive fieldwork among less-studied migrants, as well as wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multiple, interactive factors—structural, cultural, and personal—that influence people to
Temporary Foreign Worker Programs and Neoliberal Political Economy
by Leigh Binford
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780292756885
Pub Date: January 1st, 2013
Format: Paperback
299 Pages
This exceptional study examines the experience of Mexican workers in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), widely considered a model program by the World Bank and other international institutions despite the significant violations of l
