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Author Schmidt, Ella, author.

Title The dream fields of Florida : Mexican farmworkers and the myth of belonging / Ella Schmidt.

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2009]
2009

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Description 1 online resource (156 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The hidden, shameful presence -- The imposition of identities -- Identities, localities, globalities -- Schools as alienating institutions -- Rituals of daily life: past sorrows, present prides -- Straddling the tracks: Mexican farmworkers and the politics of identity -- Conclusions.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Foreign workers, Mexican -- Florida -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Agricultural laborers -- Florida -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Children of foreign workers -- Florida -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Immigrants -- Florida -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- Florida -- Case studies.
Group identity -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Schmidt, Ella. Dream fields of Florida : Mexican farmworkers and the myth of belonging. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2009] xxvii, 127 pages ; 24 cm 9780739138724 (OCoLC)ocn428436749 (DLC)10856960
ISBN 9780739138724 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739138723 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739138748 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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