From south of the border: Latino experiences in urban America.
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Title
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From south of the border: Latino experiences in urban America.
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Identifier
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AAI8914741
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identifier
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8914741
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Creator
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Badillo, David A.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Richard C. Wade
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Date
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1988
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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History, United States | Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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Abstract
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Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans have migrated to their respective "capital cities" at various times, and for vastly different reasons. San Antonio barrios emerged with the help of legally enforced racial covenants, leading to de facto segregation. Early patterns of urbanization in Chicano and Puerto Rican barrios exhibited a disregard for services and a lack of concern for the amenities of local residents. In Miami, federal policies helped prevent ghettoization through nationwide resettlement during peak years of refugee migration. As the entire occupational structure has been reconstructed in the post World War II world, Latino workers have found decreased opportunities for mobility. The character and intensity of Mexican migration and settlement patterns in San Antonio have changed over time; the development of an international economy with its varying means of incorporating immigrants into metropolitan labor markets allowed "assimilation" in declining sectors while excluding Chicanos from expanding ones. United States influence upon Puerto Rico has increased, encompassing everything from minimum wage levels to food and shelter subsidies, and this has affected the labor migration of Puerto Ricans to New York. In the Cuban case, assistance from established social networks within the Cuban community, and especially contact with other Cuban entrepreneurs, helped accelerate mobility, although not cultural assimilation.;The schools of San Antonio, New York, and Miami have served as battlegrounds because of the emergence of ethnic as well as linguistic issues due to the mixed racial origins of the Spanish-speaking. In politics Latinos have forced changes in the realm of civil rights, electoral representation, voting patterns, and the distribution of urban services. As in other areas, the federal government has played a decisive role in shaping the political configurations of Latino cities. A complex interaction of class and ethnicity have played a unique and important role in the reception of Latinos in United States cities and in the historical development of a collective ethnic identity.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
