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The Dream Fields of Florida - Mexican Farmworkers and the Myth of Belonging (Hardcover)
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The Dream Fields of Florida - Mexican Farmworkers and the Myth of Belonging (Hardcover)
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Immigrant workers from indigenous communities who are working in
low-wage jobs are often stigmatized for their origins, their
status, and their poverty. For them, achieving the American Dream
means overcoming the historic biases of contemporary economic,
cultural, social, and political systems. The Dream Fields of
Florida explores the limits of accessibility to the American Dream
for Mexican-American farmworkers. Using ethnographic data from
several immigrant communities in Florida, Ella Schmidt studies the
intersecting and often contradicting issues of identity,
citizenship, and belonging. She unravels the embedded structural
inequalities of U.S. society and the ideological discourses that
mask them and finds that only through playing by the rules can
Mexican farmworkers be selectively granted second-class
citizenship-if any at all. This book is a timely and increasingly
necessary look at one of the most invisible populations in the
United States, one that has been systematically ignored and
continuously misrepresented. Contrary to their imposed labels as
subservient "illegal aliens," Mexican farmworkers are the epitome
of agency, embodying the American ideals that are at the basis of
the (Mexican-) American Dream.
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