Full Description
A Place to Be is the first book to explore migration dynamics and community settlement among Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican immigrants in America's new South. The book adopts a fresh perspective to explore patterns of settlement in Florida, including the outlying areas of Miami and beyond. The stellar contributors from Latin America and the United States address the challenges faced by Latino immigrants, their cultural and religious practices, as well as the strategies used, as they move into areas experiencing recent large-scale immigration.Contributors to this volume include Patricia Fortuny Loret de Mola, Carol GirÓn SolÓrzano, Silvia Irene Palma, LÚcia Ribeiro, Mirian Solfs Lizama, JosÉ ClaÚdio Souza Alves, Timothy J. Steigenga, Manuel A. VÁsquez, and Philip J. Williams.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Transnational Lives
Beyond Homo Anomicus
From Jacaltenango to Jupiter
Solidarities among Mexican Immigrants in Immokalee
Part II. Collective Mobilization and Empowerment
Transnationalism and Collective Action among Guatemalan and Mexican Immigrants in Two Florida Communities
Immigrant Regime of Production
Part III. Identities and Lived Religion
Lived Religion and a Sense of Home
Looking for Lived Religion in Immokalee
Brazilian and Mexican Women
A Place to Be
