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Title: Latinos/os (in) on the Border

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: In the early 21st century, no other area in the United States appears to have been as profoundly transformed by recent immigration from Latin America than the Southwest. This region alongside the 2,000-mile stretch that separates the United States and Mexico, includes California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas. According to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census, the Southwest is currently home to more than half of all Latinos (nearly 56%). Because of intensive and extensive Latino geographic clustering, some have even gone so far as to label the region "Mex-America" and/or "New Aztlan." This categorization, in turn, encourages the broadly accepted notion that this ethnic concentration is both recent . . .

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Authors: Skop, Emily; Gutmann, Myron P.; Gratton, Brian

Editors: Havid Rodrez, Rogelio Saenz Cecilia Menjr

Pages: 243-262

Volume Title: Latinas/os in the United States: Changing the Face of America

Publisher: Springer

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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