Global Connections & Local Receptions ─ New Latino Immigration to the Southeastern United States

Ansley (emeritus, U. of Tennessee College of Law) and Shefner (sociology, U. of Tennessee) present a collection of 11 essays exploring dynamics of immigration in the United States, with a particular focus on Latino immigrants, labor markets, global economic change, and "new destinations," i.e. urban and rural places in the US that have only recently experienced significant demographic change as a result of Latino immigration. Specific topics include a Mexican perspective on the role of mass labor migration under the North American Free Trade Agreement; Tennessee as a new destination for Latino immigrants; policing and regulating workers and employers in the poultry industry; access to local housing and anti-immigrant backlash; regional and local trends of Latino migration and migrant experience in the US South; transnational organizing and guest workers in North Carolina; approaches to immigrant labor organizing in Nashville, Tennessee; and relations between African American and Latino immigrant workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)