"Through its close study of immigration in an area of the United
States that had until recent years largely been insulated from
newcomers, this book opens a window onto a phenomenon that is both
deeply local and entirely global. Profoundly insightful on both
levels, it deserves to be read by scholars, activists, and human
beings everywhere who seek to understand the potential for conflict
and for constructive change in communities receiving new immigrants
today."
--Jennifer Gordon, Fordham Law School
Author of Suburban Sweatshops
"Scholars in a number of disciplines (sociology, anthropology, law,
Appalachian studies, southern studies Latino studies, labor
studies) would find this book useful in both their research and
courses." --Donald E. Davis, coeditor of Voices from the Nueva
Frontera: Latino Immigration in Dalton, Georgia
"Scholars working on policy questions, demographic concerns,
cultural studies, political economy, and 'new destination' will all
find this book extremely useful." --Altha J. Cravey, author of
Women and Work in Mexico's Maquiladoras
In recent decades, Latino immigration has transformed
communities and cultures throughout the southeastern United
States-and become the focus of a sometimes furious national debate.
Global Connections and Local Receptions is one of the first books
to provide an in-depth consideration of this profound demographic
and social development.
Examining Latino migration at the local, state, national, and
binational levels, this book includes studies of southeastern
locales and a statewide overview of Tennessee. Leading migration
scholar Alejandro Portes offers a national analysis while Raul
Delgado Wise provides a Mexican perspective on the migration issue
and its policy implications for both the United States and
Mexico.
This collection contains a broad base of contributions from legal
scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, geographers, and political
scientists. Readers will find demographic data charting trends in
immigration, descriptions of organizing and of individual
experiences, a quantitative comparison of new and old destinations,
a critical history of U.S. immigration policy in recent decades, a
report on access to housing and efforts to enact anti-immigrant
laws, an assessment of how mass outmigration currently affects the
national economy and communities in Mexico, analysis of the way
dominant ideology frames "black-brown" relationships in southern
labor markets, and a concluding essay with detailed recommendations
for making U.S. immigration policy just and humane.
Frances L. Ansley is Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus at the
University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville. She is the
author of numerous book chapters and the principal humanities
adviser to a documentary film. Her articles have been published in
the California Law Review, Cornell Journal of International Law,
Georgetown Journal of Poverty Law & Policy, University of
Pennsylvania Journal of Labor & Employment Law, and numerous
additional publications.
Jon Shefner is associate professor of sociology and director of the
Interdisciplinary Program in Global Studies at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the coeditor of Out of the Shadows:
Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America. His
recent book is The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and
Community Mobilization in Low-Income
Mexico.
"Recommended to anyone interested in the new wave of immigration
into the United States."
--The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
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