Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland. Allegro, Wood Paperback**

University of Illinois Press

Latin American Migrations to the U.S. HeartlandChanging Social Landscapes in Middle America\nAuthor(s): Linda Allegro, Andrew Grant Wood, Linda Allegro, Tisa M. Anders, Scott Carter, Caitlin Didier, Miranda Cady Hallet, Albert Iaroi, Errol D. Jones, Jane Juffer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252084355, 978-0252084355\nSynopsis\nThis collection examines Latina/o immigrants and the movement of the Latin American labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. Contributors look at outside factors affecting migration, including corporate agriculture, technology, globalization, and government. They also reveal how cultural affinities like religion, strong family ties, farming, and cowboy culture attract these newcomers to the Heartland. Throughout, essayists point to how hostile neoliberal policy reforms have made it difficult for Latin American i.