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Author Santos Gómez, Hugo, author.

Title Immigrant farmworkers and citizenship in rural California : playing soccer in the San Joaquin Valley / Hugo Santos-Gomez.

Publication Info. El Paso [Texas] : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2014.
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 263 pages .)
text file
Series The new Americans : recent immigration and American society
New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Santos-Gomez contends that soccer in the San Joaquin Valley constitutes a manifestation of a complex process by which immigrant farmworkers are carving out spaces of civic engagement, and more broadly speaking, practicing novel forms of substantial citizenship. Simultaneously, these processes constitute an expression of profound changes; on the one hand, the late re-intensification of California agriculture with increasing demand s of human labor for extended periods of time and, on the other, the increasing process of settling down of farmworkers that such re-intensification has favored, a la.
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Subject Soccer -- Social aspects -- California -- San Joaquin Valley.
Soccer -- Social aspects.
California -- San Joaquin Valley.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- California -- San Joaquin Valley -- Social conditions.
Agricultural laborers, Foreign.
Social conditions.
Community life -- California -- San Joaquin Valley.
Community life.
Community development -- California -- San Joaquin Valley.
Community development.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781593326180 1593326181 (DLC) 2013029593
ISBN 1593327390 (electronic book)
9781593327392 (electronic book)
9781593326180 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1593326181 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)