Mexicans in Minnesota

Mexicans in Minnesota PDF Author: Dionicio Valdes
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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A brilliant and succinct history of the Mexican community in Minnesota.

Mexicans in Minnesota

Mexicans in Minnesota PDF Author: Dionicio Valdes
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873516850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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A brilliant and succinct history of the Mexican community in Minnesota.

Mexican Americans in Minnesota

Mexican Americans in Minnesota PDF Author:
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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The Mexican in Minnesota

The Mexican in Minnesota PDF Author: Minnesota. Governor's Human Rights Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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The Mexican in Minnesota

The Mexican in Minnesota PDF Author: Minnesota. Governor's Human Rights Commission
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Category : Mexican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Latino Minnesota

Latino Minnesota PDF Author: Leigh Roethke
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873517867
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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A warm and fascinating history of a people who today are changing the face of Minnesota!

New Destinations

New Destinations PDF Author: Victor Zuniga
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN: 1610445708
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Mexican immigration to the United States—the oldest and largest immigration movement to this country—is in the midst of a fundamental transformation. For decades, Mexican immigration was primarily a border phenomenon, confined to Southwestern states. But legal changes in the mid-1980s paved the way for Mexican migrants to settle in parts of America that had no previous exposure to people of Mexican heritage. In New Destinations, editors Víctor Zúñiga and Rubén Hernández-León bring together an inter-disciplinary team of scholars to examine demographic, social, cultural, and political changes in areas where the incorporation of Mexican migrants has deeply changed the preexisting ethnic landscape. New Destinations looks at several of the communities where Mexican migrants are beginning to settle, and documents how the latest arrivals are reshaping—and being reshaped by—these new areas of settlement. Contributors Jorge Durand, Douglas Massey, and Chiara Capoferro use census data to diagram the historical evolution of Mexican immigration to the United States, noting the demographic, economic, and legal factors that led recent immigrants to move to areas where few of their predecessors had settled. Looking at two towns in Southern Louisiana, contributors Katharine Donato, Melissa Stainback, and Carl Bankston III reach a surprising conclusion: that documented immigrant workers did a poorer job of integrating into the local culture than their undocumented peers. They attribute this counterintuitive finding to documentation policies, which helped intensify employer control over migrants and undercut the formation of a stable migrant community among documented workers. Brian Rich and Marta Miranda detail an ambivalent mixture of paternalism and xenophobia by local residents toward migrants in Lexington, Kentucky. The new arrivals were welcomed for their strong work ethic so long as they stayed in "invisible" spheres such as fieldwork, but were resented once they began to take part in more public activities like schools or town meetings. New Destinations also provides some hopeful examples of progress in community relations. Several chapters, including Mark Grey and Anne Woodrick's examination of a small Iowa town, point to the importance of dialogue and mediation in establishing amicable relations between ethnic groups in newly multi-cultural settings. New Destinations is the first scholarly assessment of Mexican migrants' experience in the Midwest, Northeast, and deep South—the latest settlement points for America's largest immigrant group. Enriched by perspectives from demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, folklorists, and political scientists, this volume is an essential starting point for scholarship on the new Mexican migration.

To Call it Home

To Call it Home PDF Author: Joseph Anthony Amato
Publisher: Plains Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Information about the newest wave of immigrants to southwestern Minnesota--Africans, Asians, and Hispanics. Responds to such questions as who the newcomers are, why they came, and what they experience upon arrival there. Gives special attention to matters of social services, housing, school, and crime. Seeks a comparative understanding of migration patterns and the different experiences of several food-processing cities in southwestern Minnesota.

North for the Harvest

North for the Harvest PDF Author: Jim Norris
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Throughout most of the twentieth century, thousands of Mexicans traveled north to work the sugar beet fields of the Red River Valley. North for the Harvest examines the evolving relationships between Amercian Crystal Sugar Company, the sugar beet growers, and the migrant workers. Though popular convention holds that migrant workers were invariably exploited, Norris reveals that these relationships were more complex. The company often clashed with growers, sometimes while advocating for workers. And many growers developed personal ties with their workers, while workers themselves often found ways to leverage better pay and working conditions from the company. Ultimately, the lot of workers improved as the years went by. As one worker explained, something historic occurred for his family while working in the Red River Valley: "We broke the chain there."

Somalis in Minnesota

Somalis in Minnesota PDF Author: Ahmed Ismail Yusuf
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873518748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 93

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The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of Somali sahan, pioneers, discovered well-paying jobs in the city of Marshall, Minnesota. Soon the war, news, traveled that not only was employment available but the people in this northern state, so different in climate from their African homeland, were generous in martisoor, hospitality, just like the Somali people themselves. The diaspora began in 1992, and today more than fifty thousand Somalis live in Minnesota, the most of any state. Many have made their lives in small towns and rural areas, and many more have settled in Minneapolis, earning this city the nickname "Little Somalia" or "Little Mogadishu." Amiable guide Ahmed Yusuf introduces readers to these varied communities, exploring economic and political life, religious and cultural practices, and successes in education and health care. he also tackles the controversial topics that command newspaper headlines: alleged links to terrorist organizations and the recruitment of young Somali men to fight in the civil war back home. This newest addition to the people of Minnesota series captures the story of the state's most recent immigrant group at a pivotal time in its history.

Raza Sí, Migra No

Raza Sí, Migra No PDF Author: Jimmy Patiño
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635577
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadership of the small-scale print shop owner Herman Baca in the Chicano movement to empower Mexican Americans through Chicano self-determination. The combination of increasing repression and Chicano activism gradually produced a new conception of ethnic and racial community that included both established Mexican Americans and new Mexican immigrants. Here, Jimmy Patino narrates the rise of this Chicano/Mexicano consciousness and the dawning awareness that Mexican Americans and Mexicans would have to work together to fight border enforcement policies that subjected Latinos of all statuses to legal violence. By placing the Chicano and Latino civil rights struggle on explicitly transnational terrain, Patino fundamentally reorients the understanding of the Chicano movement. Ultimately, Patino tells the story of how Chicano/Mexicano politics articulated an "abolitionist" position on immigration--going beyond the agreed upon assumptions shared by liberals and conservatives alike that deportations are inherent to any solutions to the still burgeoning immigration debate.