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"The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight. Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Award-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows, Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life. Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better." -- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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In 1986, many immigrants got the opportunity to obtain legal status; the tradeoff increased criminalization of unlawful immigration ended up keeping more undocumented migrants in the US, since border crossings became more dangerous, and many even brought their families here for the first time for the same reason; this dynamic also increased the percentage of female immigrants. Newly legalized immigrants could demand higher wages and better working conditions, but wages and conditions also deteriorated for the still-undocumented, and employers shifted to subcontracting for better deniability about their hiring. The law also shifted immigrants to the cities, because agricultural work was seasonal and now it was dangerous to go back and forth so people needed year-round work.
Unsurprisingly, the book ends by discussing the 2016 election and Trump’s racism, noting that Trump won where there were fewest immigrants. Those voters, among other things, “were least in a position to see that Trump’s linkage of immigration and crime was simply not true. After all, they had heard stories of big-city danger during the decades of the urban crisis. How were they to know that crime had plunged, since they’d long ago forsaken the cities?” But Latino immigrants are also coming to rural areas, where they are often the only hope for revival: from 2000-2010, “Latinas and Latinos comprised 58 percent of all population growth in counties outside metropolitan areas.” ( )