ERIC Number: ED138412
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1974-Nov-23
Pages: 12
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Settling Out and Settling In.
Provinzano, James
Socioeconomic characteristics of settled-out Mexican American migrant farmworkers who were in the South Texas-based midwestern migrant stream were examined. By chain identification (each family identified 1 or 2 others), 27 subjects were located. These ex-migrants had, over the years, settled-out in and around a small city (population 40,000) in east central Wisconsin. Generally, they settled-out to enter wage work with little risk-reducing aid. These settled-out families had: a smaller number of children; greater facility in English; more formal education, including more high school graduates; substantially greater income without the child labor; and the willingness to sever supporting ties of kinship and friendship with other Chicanos. Since these characteristics suggested some rather Anglicized Chicanos, 11 Chicano adolescents were interviewed to determine whether: submergence of ethnicity was necessary for comfortable adaptation to an Anglo sociocultural context, or any anti-Mexican prejudice was encountered in the community. Some generalizations which emerged were: the adolescents expressed little feeling of pride in, or knowledge of, La Raza or of Mexicanness, although one or both parents had been born in Mexico in 80% of the cases; Cesar Chavez was just a public figure to most of them; and they seemed to be aware of discrimination on a very low and subtle level, but attributed it to the individual's idiosyncracies, rather than a group trait of Anglos. (NQ)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Identifiers - Location: Wisconsin
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