The Alternative Lexington: Fashioning Home, Place, and Belonging among Lexington's Latino Immigrant Community

Abstract

Faced with difficulties in joining Lexington's broader identities, I reason that the city's Latino immigrant population has largely crafted an alternative community -- or an "imagined" Lexington -- relying on the bonding power of elements of identity moveable between countries and nationalities. After attempting a statistical approach to this population as an investigative base, I employ three case studies to extrapolate a sense of the dynamics of such community construction.