Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America

Contents

Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Heartland North, Heartland South 1 Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood Part i. Geographies in Historical Perspective Chapter 1. Mexicans in the United States: A Longer View 25 Andrew Grant Wood Chapter 2. Betabeleros and the Western Nebraska Sugar Industry: An Early-Twentieth-Century History 42 Tisa M. Anders Chapter 3. Latinos and the Churches in Idaho, 1950–2000 67 Errol D. Jones Part ii. Contesting Policy and Legal Boundaries Chapter 4. Seeing No Evil: The H2A Guest-Worker Program and State-Mediated Labor Exploitation in Rural North Carolina 101 Sandy Smith-Nonini Chapter 5. On Removing Migrant Labor in a Right-to-Work State: The Failure of Employer Sanctions in Oklahoma 125 Linda Allegro Part iii. transnational identities and new Landscapes of Home Chapter 6. Rooted/Uprooted: Place, Policy, and Salvadoran Transnational Identities in Rural Arkansas 147 Miranda Cady Hallett Chapter 7. Contesting Diversity and Community within Postville, Iowa: “Hometown to the World” 169 Jennifer F. Reynolds and Caitlin Didier Part iv. Media and reimagined Sites of Accommodation and Contestation Chapter 8. Humanizing Latino Newcomers in the “No Coast” Region 201 Edmund T. Hamann and Jenelle Reeves Chapter 9. Immigrant Integration and the Changing Public Discourse: The Case of Emporia, Kansas 222 László J. Kulcsár and Albert Iaroi Part v. religion and Migrant Communities Chapter 10. “They Cling to Guns or Religion”: Pennsylvania Towns Put Faith in Anti-immigrant Ordinances 249 Jane Juffer Part vi. Demographics Chapter 11. Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Demographic and Economic Activity in Six Heartland States, 2000–2007 271 Scott Carter Conclusion: Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland: Reshaping Communities, Redrawing Boundaries 307 Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood Contributors 311 Index 317 ...