Description |
1 online resource (xi, 263 pages .) |
Series |
The new Americans : recent immigration and American society |
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New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. I From Social Deserts to Soccer Fields: An Introduction -- ch. II Land, Water, and Labor: Re-intensification of Agriculture and Farmworkers Settlement -- ch. III Three Tales of Community Building: from the Family Farm Town to the Farmworker Community -- ch. IV Playing Soccer, Practicing Citizenship -- ch. V Playing Soccer Rhetoric(s): Masculinity, Immigration, Education -- ch. VI Three Tales of Soccer and Public Space -- ch. VII Citizenship, Soccer, and Ethnography |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Soccer -- Social aspects -- California -- San Joaquin Valley
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Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- California -- San Joaquin Valley -- Social conditions
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Community life -- California -- San Joaquin Valley
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Community development -- California -- San Joaquin Valley
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GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
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Agricultural laborers, Foreign -- social conditions
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Community development
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Community life
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Soccer -- Social aspects
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California -- San Joaquin Valley
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1593327390 |
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9781593327392 |
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