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The Invisible Minority - Urban Appalachians (Paperback)
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The Invisible Minority - Urban Appalachians (Paperback)
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Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in
Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better life in the cities
of the Midwest and Southeast. Today they constitute one of the
largest minorities in many of those cities. Yet they have been
largely overlooked as a social group and ignored as a potential
political force, partly because so little has been written about
them. This important book is the first to explore the Appalachian
migration and its impact on the cities, on Appalachia, and on the
migrants themselves, from the perspectives of sociology, economics,
geography, and social planning. Eleven contributors offer new
insights into the complex patterns of migration streams, the
numbers of Appalachians in specific urban areas, their residential
and occupational patterns in the cities, their adjustments to urban
life and work, and the enormous social and economic impact of this
mass movement.
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