Strangers among us : how Latino immigration is transforming America

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Label

Strangers among us : how Latino immigration is transforming America

Title remainder

how Latino immigration is transforming America

Statement of responsibility

Roberto Suro

Title variation

How Latino immigration is transforming America

Creator

• Suro, Roberto

Subject

• Hispanic Americans -- History -- 20th century
• Hispanic Americans -- Social conditions
• Immigrants -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Latin America -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

Strangers 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. He 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. We 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. Looking 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. Critical 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.S75

LC item number

S86 1998

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography