TY - BOOK ID - 78716544 TI - At the Core and in the Margins : Incorporation of Mexican Immigrants in Two Rural Midwestern Communities PY - 2016 SN - 1628952652 1609174925 9781609174927 9781611862065 161186206X 9781628952650 9781628962659 PB - East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, DB - UniCat KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies. KW - Monmouth (Ill.) KW - Beardstown (Ill.) KW - Social surveys KW - Immigrants KW - Mexican Americans KW - Chicanos KW - Hispanos KW - Ethnology KW - Emigrants KW - Foreign-born population KW - Foreign population KW - Foreigners KW - Migrants KW - Persons KW - Aliens KW - Community surveys KW - Surveys, Social KW - Social sciences KW - Surveys KW - Ethnic relations. KW - Social conditions. KW - Cultural assimilation KW - Research KW - Illinois KW - Estado de Illinois KW - ʻIlinoe KW - Ilinoi KW - Ilinoĭs KW - Ilinojso KW - Ilīnūy KW - Illinoi KW - Illinoi-ju KW - Illinoiju KW - Illinois suyu KW - Illinoys KW - Illīnūy KW - Politeia tou Ilinoi KW - Shtat Ilinoĭs KW - State of Illinois KW - Tó Nitsaa Nílį́bąąh Hahoodzo KW - Yî-li-nò KW - Πολιτεία του Ιλινόι KW - Ιλινόι KW - Штат Ілінойс KW - Илиной KW - Илинойс KW - Иллинойс KW - Ілінойс KW - אילינוי KW - إلينوي KW - 일리노이 KW - 일리노이 주 KW - 일리노이주 KW - Illinois Territory KW - Rural conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78716544 AB - "Beardstown and Monmouth, Illinois, two rural Midwestern towns, have been transformed by immigration in the last three decades. This book examines how Mexican immigrants who have made these towns their homes have integrated legally, culturally, and institutionally. What accounts for the massive growth in the Mexican immigrant populations in these two small towns, and what does the future hold for them? Based on 260 surveys and 47 in-depth interviews, this study combines quantitative and qualitative research to explore the level and characteristics of immigrant incorporation in Beardstown and Monmouth. It assesses the advancement of immigrants in the immigration/ residency/citizenship process, the immigrants' level of cultural integration (via language, their connectedness with other members of society, and their relationships with neighbors), the degree and characteristics of discrimination against immigrants in these two towns, and the extent to which immigrants participate in different social and political activities and trust government institutions. Immigrants in new destinations are likely to be poorer, to be less educated, and to have weaker English-language skills than immigrants in traditional destinations. Studying how this population negotiates the obstacles to and opportunities for incorporation is crucial"-- ER -