Immigration and rural America: Latinos' perceptions of work and residence in three meatpacking communities

Community, Work and Family

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 163-185

  Dalla, Rochelle L ^a   Ellis, Amy ^b   Cramer, Sheran C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b Omaha Campus ^*

Author keywords

Immigration; Meat processing work; Residence; Rural midwest

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944480443     PISSN: 13668803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13668800500049639     Document Type: Article

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