Patricia Goerman is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the United States Census Bureau. Her most recent publication is a chapter in Complex Ethnic Householdsin America.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Globalization and the Dispersal of Immigrants to Non-Traditional Receiving Areas in the United StatesChapter 2. Central Virginia: A Promised Land for New Latino Immigrants?Chapter 3. Troubles in the Promised Land: Complex Household Living as a Temporary Survival Strategy in Central VirginiaChapter 4. One Step Forward, Two steps Back: Gendered Experiences of Work and Family Life in Central VirginiaChapter 5. Permanent Settlement or a Temporary Stay?: The Future of the Hispanic Community in Central VirginiaChapter 6. The Promised Land As a Relative Concept: Public Policy Concerns for the FutureBibliographyAppendix A

Patricia Goerman is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the United States Census Bureau. Her most recent publication is a chapter in Complex Ethnic Householdsin America.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Globalization and the Dispersal of Immigrants to Non-Traditional Receiving Areas in the United StatesChapter 2. Central Virginia: A Promised Land for New Latino Immigrants?Chapter 3. Troubles in the Promised Land: Complex Household Living as a Temporary Survival Strategy in Central VirginiaChapter 4. One Step Forward, Two steps Back: Gendered Experiences of Work and Family Life in Central VirginiaChapter 5. Permanent Settlement or a Temporary Stay?: The Future of the Hispanic Community in Central VirginiaChapter 6. The Promised Land As a Relative Concept: Public Policy Concerns for the FutureBibliographyAppendix A

Patricia Goerman is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the United States Census Bureau. Her most recent publication is a chapter in Complex Ethnic Householdsin America.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Globalization and the Dispersal of Immigrants to Non-Traditional Receiving Areas in the United StatesChapter 2. Central Virginia: A Promised Land for New Latino Immigrants?Chapter 3. Troubles in the Promised Land: Complex Household Living as a Temporary Survival Strategy in Central VirginiaChapter 4. One Step Forward, Two steps Back: Gendered Experiences of Work and Family Life in Central VirginiaChapter 5. Permanent Settlement or a Temporary Stay?: The Future of the Hispanic Community in Central VirginiaChapter 6. The Promised Land As a Relative Concept: Public Policy Concerns for the FutureBibliographyAppendix A