Latino Incorporation and Racialized Border Politics in the Heartland

Interior Enforcement and Policeability in an English-Only State

Bibliographic Data

ID3758997
AuthorsMarta María Maldonado (0000-0001-5312-0282, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume58
Issue14
Pages1927-1945
Publication date2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0002764214550292
OpenAlexW2061154438
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited30

This article examines how the interplay among context of reception and interior enforcement and policeability policies and practices shapes Latino incorporation into Perry, a rural new destination community in Iowa. Analysis, based on ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of Latinos, foregrounds how the racialized dimensions of place affect incorporation, social interaction, and the ability of new populations to develop a sense of belonging. The stories Latinos share about everyday life in Perry reveal that Latinos and non-Latinos tend to live in "separate worlds" within community, differing in how and when they circulate in local space, with few instances of sustained and meaningful interaction. A climate of fear, competition, and distrust discourages the formation of networks and relations of solidarity within and across ethnoracial groups. Latinos report a sense of being welcome as laborers, but rejected as neighbors with their particular sociohistorical and cultural manifestations

Context (archaeology) · Distrust · Ethnography · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sense of community · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology

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