Examining strengths and challenges of rapid rural immigration

Great Plains Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 231-251

  Dalla, Rochelle L ^a   Villarruel, Francisco ^b   Cramer, Sheran C ^a   Gonzalez Kruger, Gloria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Immigrants; Latino; Meatpacking; Midwest; Rural

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; IMMIGRATION; LATINO PEOPLE; MULTICULTURALISM; RURAL AREA;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 7044269582     PISSN: 10525165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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