Illegality and the Production of Affluence

Undocumented Labor and Gentrification in Rural America

Lise Nelson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520416376 (ISBN)

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Over several decades, the influx of wealthy, white "lifestyle" migrants has transformed the economic, social, and ecological fabric of many rural communities across the United States—from alpine towns of the Rockies to forest and lake communities of the Southeast—in a process akin to urban gentrification. Illegality and the Production of Affluence explores an underappreciated dimension of this process: its dependence on low-wage Latine immigrant workers, many undocumented, who build and maintain gentrified landscapes and lifestyles. Drawing on fine-grained qualitative data, Lise Nelson explores how employers recruited an unfamiliar workforce to places "off the map" of immigrant settlement. The book also reveals insights into how business practices and profitability shifted through the use of racialized, "illegal," and highly precarious labor. Finally, the book investigates the disjuncture between Latine immigrants' vital role in rural gentrifying economies and their social, civic, and racialized exclusion in the spaces of everyday life.

Lise Nelson is Professor in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment at the University of Arizona.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Terminology

Introduction: Landscapes of Affluence, Geographies of Exclusion
1. Gentrification, Migration, and Race
2. Methods and Case Studies
3. Immigrant Labor Regimes
4. Social Reproduction, Race, and "Illegality"
Conclusion

Appendix: More on Methodology
List of Quoted Interviewees
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.08.2025
Zusatzinfo	7 b-w illustrations, 2 maps, 2 charts
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9780520416376 / 9780520416376
Zustand	Neuware