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"Greenport, New York, a village on the North Fork of Long Island, exemplifies a little-noted national trend--that of immigrants spreading beyond the big coastal cities, driving much of rural population growth nationally. In Village of Immigrants, Diana R. Gordon illustrates how small-town America has been revitalized by the arrival of these newcomers in Greenport, where she lives. Greenport today boasts a population that is one-third Hispanic. Gordon contends that these immigrants have effectively saved the town's economy by taking low-skill jobs, increasing the tax base, filling schools, and creating and patronizing local businesses. Greenport's seaside beauty still attracts summer tourists, but it is only with the support of the local Latino workforce that elegant restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts are able to serve these visitors. For Gordon the picture is complex, because the wave of immigrants also presents the town with challenges to its services and institutions. Gordon's portraits of local immigrants capture the positive and the negative, with a cast of characters ranging from a Guatemalan mother of three, including one child who is profoundly disabled, to a Colombian house painter with a successful business who cannot become licensed because he remains undocumented. Village of Immigrants weaves together these people's stories, fears, and dreams to reveal an environment plagued by threats of deportation, debts owed to coyotes, low wages, and the other bleak realities that shape the immigrant experience--even in the charming seaport village of Greenport. A timely contribution to the national dialogue on immigration, Gordon's book shows the pivotal role the American small town plays in the ongoing American immigrant story--as well as how this booming population is shaping and reviving rural communities"--
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Immigrants, Social change, Hispanic Americans, Economic conditions, Ethnic relations, Social conditions, Working class, Biography, Hispanic americans, social conditions, Working class, united states, New york (n.y.), social conditions, New york (state), social conditions, Immigrants, united states, United states, ethnic relations, New york (state), biography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Urban & Regional, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American StudiesPlaces
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Village of Immigrants: Latinos in an Emerging America
Jul 15, 2018, Rutgers University Press
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Village of Immigrants: Latinos in an Emerging America
2015, Rutgers University Press
in English
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Village of Immigrants: Latinos in an Emerging America
2015, Rutgers University Press
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