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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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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (156 pages)
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
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.)