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Chapter 4: “The Wanderers, El destierro ”

Chapter 4: “The Wanderers, El destierro ” . “ Jobs no local would take.” Working in a chicken processing plant. Koch Foods in Ashland AL. Chicken processing plant owned by Tyson. Ashland. Clay County.

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Chapter 4: “The Wanderers, El destierro ”

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  1. Chapter 4: “The Wanderers, El destierro” • “Jobs no local would take.” Working in a chicken processing plant

  2. Koch Foods in Ashland AL Chicken processing plant owned by Tyson

  3. Ashland Clay County

  4. “The counters of the Census 2000 arrived in Ashland and the surrounding towns a year after I left: they tallied 253 people of “Hispanic” heritage in Clay County (a severe undercount, by my reckoning), about 2 percent of the total population” (Tobar, 2005, p. 111)

  5. “The counters of the Census 2000 arrived in Ashland and the surrounding towns a year after I left: they tallied 253 people of “Hispanic” heritage in Clay County (a severe undercount, by my reckoning), about 2 percent of the total population” (Tobar, 2005, p. 111) 2000 Census 57.7% increase 2010 Census 0.5% decrease

  6. Chapter 4: “The Wanderers, El destierro” • “Jobs no local would take.” Working in a chicken processing plant • Labor recruiters advertise on Spanish radio stations • “The ad promised overtime,” leading Roman to imagine “fat numbers,” even up to “$400 in a single week. • Economies of Scale in Slaughtering chickens—”The plant had an insatiable, round-the-clock appetite for chicken…” • Occupational segregation: “A group of engineers and mechanics arrived, men with clipboards and take-charge attitudes, their smart eyes gazing up at the ceiling. Every single one of them was white.” • Licenses for immigrants—state policies on giving driving exams in languages other than English. Market for taxicab drivers.

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