Immigrants Outside Megalopolis

Richard C. Jones is professor of geography in the department of political science and geography at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

• Part 1 PrefacePart 2 Part One: IntroductionChapter 3 Chapter 1: Immigrants Transform and are Transformed by the U.S. HeartlandPart 4 Part Two: Western United StatesChapter 5 Chapter 2: Slavic Dreams: Post Soviet Refugee Identity and Adaptation in Portland, OregonChapter 6 Chapter 3: Emigrés Outside Miami: The Cuban Experience in Metropolitan PhoenixChapter 7 Chapter 4: Trying to Be Authentic, But Not Too Authentic: Second Generation Hindu Americans in Dallas, TexasChapter 8 Chapter 5: Spatial Disjunctures and Division in the New West: Latino Immigration to Leadville, ColoradoChapter 9 Chapter 6: Meatpacking and Mexicans on the High Plains: From Minority to Majority in Garden City, KansasChapter 10 Chapter 7: Cultural Retrenchment and Economic Marginality: Mexican Immigrants in San AntonioPart 11 Part Three: Eastern United StatesChapter 12 Chapter 8: Spaces and Places of Adaptation in an Ethnic Vietnamese Cluster in New Orleans, LouisianaChapter 13 Chapter 9: The Quest for Home: Sheboygan's Hmong PopulationChapter 14 Chapter 10: Getting Settled in the Heartland: Community Formation Among First- and Second-Generation Iranians in Iowa City, IowaChapter 15 Chapter 11: The Untraditional Geography of Hispanic Settlement in a New South City: Charlotte, North CarolinaChapter 16 Chapter 12: "An Anchor of Hope": Refugees in Utica, New YorkPart 17 Part Four: EpilogueChapter 18 Chapter 13: The Contributions of Immigrants: From Megalopolis to Mainstream

In this extremely informative collection, Richard Jones's objective to provide a wider, comparative examination of the adjustment experiences of new immigrant groups outside the country's traditional destination metropolis is not only successful, it evenconfounds his own somewhat skeptical expectations. As this collection documents, in both the East and West, non-megalopolitan America is adjusting to the presence of new immigrants from diverse global regions, and the final analysis is largely, (indeedoverwhelmingly) positive. This collection once again confirms that America is still the 'immigrant nation' it has always been since the Encounter and onward through its nation-building history to the present era. The social, cultural, and economic vigorthese new immigrant groups bring revitalizes our society, strengthens it and brings diversity, which inevitably becomes welcomed rather than disavowed, as this most recent wave of newcomers overcomes the resentments and suspicions of the residing 'host' communities, that have commonly accompanied 'others' presences during the initial 'encounters'.