"This book will serve as a valuable resource for other scholars
in their attempts to better understand how Latino newcomers are
transforming their new homes in this country." --Melvin Delgado,
author of Social Work with Latinos: A Cultural Assets
Paradigm
The Dalton-Whit?eld County area of Georgia has one of the highest
concentrations of Latino residents in the southeastern United
States. In 2006, a Washington Post article referred to the
carpet-manufacturing city of Dalton as a "U.S. border town," even
though the community lies more than twelve hundred miles from
Mexico. Voices from the Nueva Frontera explores this phenomenon,
providing an in-depth picture of Latino immigration and dispersal
in rural America along with a framework for understanding the
economic integration of the South with Latin America.
Voices from the Nueva Frontera sheds new light on the often
invisible changes that have transformed this north Georgia town
over the last thirty years. The book's contributors explore the
changes to labor markets and educational, religious, and social
organizations and show that Dalton provides a largely successful
example of a community that has provided a home to a newly arriving
immigrant work force. While debates about immigration have raged in
the public spotlight in recent years, some of the most important
voices-those of the immigrants themselves-have been nearly unheard.
In this pathbreaking book, therefore, each chapter opens with an
interview of a worker, student, teacher, or other professional
involved in the immigrant experience. These narratives add human
faces to the realities of dramatic change occurring in rural
industrial towns.
Sure to spark lively discussion in the classroom and beyond, Voices
from the Nueva Frontera gives readers a look at individual human
stories and provides much-needed documentation for what might be
the most important social change in recent southern history.
Donald E. Davis, Thomas M. Deaton, and David Boyle are on the
faculty at Dalton State College. Jo-Anne Schick is the former
director of the Georgia Project.
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