This book is an analysis of in-depth interviews with seventy-three Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia; looking at the new migration trend, the immigrants' living and working conditions, their family life, and their plans for the future.
Through analysis of in-depth interviews with seventy-three Hispanic immigrants in Central Virginia, this book offers a rare in-depth look at the views and circumstances of immigrants in a new receiving area. It provides an examination of the new migration trend including an analysis of immigrants' living and working conditions, their family life, and their plans for the future.
Chapter
1. Introduction: Globalization and the Dispersal of Immigrants
to Non-Traditional Receiving Areas in the United StatesChapter
2. Central
Virginia: A Promised Land for New Latino Immigrants?Chapter
3. Troubles in
the Promised Land: Complex Household Living as a Temporary Survival Strategy
in Central VirginiaChapter
4. One Step Forward, Two steps Back: Gendered
Experiences of Work and Family Life in Central VirginiaChapter
5. Permanent
Settlement or a Temporary Stay?: The Future of the Hispanic Community in
Central VirginiaChapter
6. The Promised Land As a Relative Concept: Public
Policy Concerns for the FutureBibliographyAppendix A
Patricia Goerman is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the United States Census Bureau. Her most recent publication is a chapter in Complex Ethnic Householdsin America.
