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100 1 $aSuro, Roberto.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94061127
245 10 $aStrangers among us :$bhow Latino immigration is transforming America /$cRoberto Suro.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bKnopf,$c1998.
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300 $a349 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aStrangers Among Us is an examination of Latino immigration to the United States - its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in American society, and the challenges it will present for decades to come.
520 8 $aHe tells the stories of a number of large Latino communities, linked in a chronological narrative that starts with the Puerto Rican migration to East Harlem in the 1950s and continues through the California-bound rush of Mexicans and Central Americans in the 1990s. He takes us into the world of Mexican-American gang members; Guatemalan Mayas in suburban Houston; Cuban businessmen in Miami; Dominican bodega owners in New York.
520 8 $aWe see people who represent a unique transnationalism and a new form of immigrant assimilation - foreigners who come from close by and visit home frequently, so that they virtually live in two lands.
520 8 $aLooking to the future, we see clearly that the sheer number of Latino newcomers will force the United States to develop new means of managing relations among diverse ethnic groups and of creating economic opportunity for all. But we also see a catalog of conflict and struggle: Latinos in confrontation with blacks; Latinos wrestling with the strain of illegal immigration on their communities; Latinos fighting the backlash that is denying legal immigrants access to welfare programs.
520 8 $aCritical both of incoherent government policies and of the failures of minority-group advocacy, the author proposes solutions of his own, including a rejection of illegal immigration by Latinos themselves paired with government efforts to deter unlawful journeys into the United States, and a new emphasis on English-language training as an aid to successful assimilation.
650 0 $aHispanic Americans$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123054
650 0 $aHispanic Americans$xSocial conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105642
651 0 $aLatin America$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100070
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