Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: from patrones and Caciques to good ole boys / Deborah A. Duchon, Arthur D. Murphy
  • Ethnicity: consciousness, agency, and status in the world system / Kathryn A. Kozaitis
  • Comparative perspectives on international migration: illegals or "guest workers" in the American south? Eric C. Jones, Robert E. Rhoades
  • How many are there? Ethnographic estimates of Mexican women in Atlanta, Georgia / Martha W. Rees
  • Industry and immigration in Dalton, Georgia / James D. Engstrom
  • Mexican places in southern spaces: globalization, work, and daily life in and around the north Georgia poultry industry / Greig Guthey
  • Hospitality and hostility: Latin immigrants in southern Georgia / John D. Studstill, Laura Nieto-Studstill
  • Another day in the Diaspora: changing ethnic landscapes in south Florida / David Griffith, Alex Stepick, Karen Richman, Guillermo Grenier, Ed Kissam, Allan Burns, Jeronimo Camposeco
  • Language and the migrant worker experience in rural North Carolina communities / Jack G. Dale, Susan Andreatta, Elizabeth Freeman
  • Immigration and the organization of the onshore oil industry: southern Louisiana in the late 1990s / Katherine M. Donato, Carl L. Bankston, Dawn T. Robinson
  • Heading south: why Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in Brownsville, Texas, cross the border into Mexico / Kathleen M. Murphy
  • A new destination for an old migration: origins, trajectories, and labor market incorporation of Latinos in Dalton, Georgia / Victor Zúñiga, Rubén Hernández-León.