Vanesa Ribas on Immigration to the New South

Prior to the 1990s, the sociology of immigration focused mainly on just a handful of major cities where most new arrivals had settled throughout the 20th century. But more recently, immigrants have been moving to new destinations in the rural South and Midwest, drawing scholars like today’s guest, Vanesa Ribas [1], to closely monitor how race and labor dynamics might be playing out in these smaller communities. Dr. Ribas’ new book, On the Line: Slaughterhouse Lives and the Making of the New South [2], examines these changes through a case study centered around a meat packing plant in rural North Carolina.

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[1] https://sociology.ucsd.edu/people/profiles/faculty/vanesa-ribas.html

[2] http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520282964

[3] http://files.thesocietypages.org/downloads/OH127_Ribas.mp3