Stanton Wortham is the Charles F. Donovan, S.J., Dean of the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, USA. He is a W.T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellow and an American Educational Research Association Fellow. Briana Nichols is a PhD student in the Department of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.Katherine Clonan-Roy is Assistant Professor of Curriculum & Foundations at Cleveland State University, USA. Catherine Rhodes is Assistant Professor of Ethnology at the University of New Mexico, USA.

• Introduction1. Intersecting Migrant Histories2. Schools: Three Divergent Individual Mexican Pathways3. Churches: An Emerging Irish-Mexican Community4. Neighborhoods: Divergent Stories of Decline5. Public Spaces: Victims, Revitalizers and Competition6. Community Organizations: Three Imagined Mexican Pathways7. Powerful, Limited StoriesReferencesIndex

This book offers an ambitious, sociohistorically-informed examination of Mexican migrants’ trajectories within an East Coast community, revealed through participant observation in diverse spaces and analyses of narratives told about immigrants in this town. Complex, nuanced and compelling: a must-read for anyone interested in how local histories intersect to shape contemporary experiences of migration.