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UNINA9910462118303321 |
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Agius Vallejo Jody |
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Barrios to burbs [[electronic resource] ] : the making of the Mexican-American middle class / / Jody Agius Vallejo |
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Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
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1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Middle class Mexican Americans |
Mexican Americans - Social conditions |
Social mobility - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Class, assimilation, and Mexican Americans -- Mexican Americans yesterday and today -- From the barrio to the Middle America : divergent class backgrounds and pathways into the middle class -- Family obligations, giving back, and middle-class individualism -- Mexicans or coconuts : middle-class minority and American identities -- Ethnic professional associations and the minority culture of mobility -- Conclusion : the new American middle class. |
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Too frequently, the media and politicians cast Mexican immigrants as a threat to American society. Given America's increasing ethnic diversity and the large size of the Mexican-origin population, an investigation of how Mexican immigrants and their descendants achieve upward mobility and enter the middle class is long overdue. Barrios to Burbs offers a new understanding of the Mexican American experience. Vallejo explores the challenges that accompany rapid social mobility and examines a new indicator of incorporation, a familial obligation to "give back" in social and financial support. She investigates the salience of middle-class Mexican Americans' ethnic identification and details how relationships with poorer coethnics and affluent whites evolve as immigrants and their descendants move into traditionally white middle-class occupations. Disputing the argument that Mexican |
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communities lack high quality resources and social capital that can help Mexican Americans incorporate into the middle class, Vallejo also examines civic participation in ethnic professional associations embedded in ethnic communities. |
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UNINA9910826615703321 |
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Redden Shawna Malvini |
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101 pat-downs : an undercover look at airport security and the TSA / / Shawna Malvini Redden |
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Lincoln, Nebraska : , : Potomac Books, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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Aeronautics, Commercial - Security measures |
Airports - Employees - Safety measures |
Aeronautics, Commercial - Passenger traffic - Security measures |
Terrorism - Prevention |
Airports - Security measures |
Airports - Management |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-262) and index. |
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Introduction: Going undercover in airport security -- From the Golden Age of flying to security theatre in ninety days flat: How September 11, 2001, changed airport security forever -- "My House, My Rules": On stereotypical transportation security officers -- Fear and loathing in airport security: On stereotypical passengers -- Is that a salami in your purse? (Or are you happy to see me?): On contraband confiscation -- "One Shoe, Two Shoes, Red Shoes, Blue Shoes": On shoe removal -- No crying over stolen shampoo: On liquids and gels -- Naked scanners are for perverts: On advanced imaging technology -- Meeting resistance: On enhanced pat-downs -- Risk-based security and other things that are good in theory -- Even pilots have pat-downs, sometimes: Flight |
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crew tales -- On the front lines with "Screener Joe": On ideal transportation security officers -- Lemmings and sheeple: On ideal passengers -- Nice TSOs finish last: On mindful transportation security officers -- The traveling unicorn: On mindful passengers -- Traveling with identity baggage: How intersecting identities make security more difficult -- Conclusion: What an undercover look at airport security reveals about communication, emotion, and identity. |
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"101 Pat-Downs traces the history of airport security since September 11, 2001, introducing assorted "characters" of airport security, from passengers who check their brains with their baggage to TSA agents who break the stereotypes"-- |
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UNINA9910416129003321 |
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Autore |
Scharfman Jason |
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Alternative Investment Operations : Hedge Funds, Private Equity, and Fund of Funds / / by Jason Scharfman |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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1 online resource (204 pages) |
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Financial services industry |
Financial Services |
Inversions |
Màrqueting bancari |
Llibres electrònics |
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1. Introduction to Alternative Investment Operations -- 2. Trade Operations: Execution, Settlement, and Reconciliation -- 3. Cash Management, Oversight, and Movement -- 4. Compliance Operations |
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and Governance Considerations -- 5. The Role of Service Providers in Alternative Investment Operations -- 6. Information Technology Operations -- 7. Additional Operational Functions and Tasks -- 8. Private Equity Operations -- 9. Fund of Funds Operations -- 10. Documenting and Analyzing Fund Operations -- 11. Ongoing Operations Management, Training, Surveillance, and Testing -- 12. Analysis of Fund Operations and Future Trends. |
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Alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity, and fund of funds continue to be of strong interest among the investment community. As these investment strategies have become increasingly complex, fund managers have continued to devote more time and resources towards developing best practice operations to support the actual trade processing, fund accounting, and back-office mechanics that allow these strategies to function. Representative of this operational growth, estimates have indicated that fund managers have seen increased operating budgets of 30% or more in recent years. In today’s highly regulated environment, alternative investment managers have also increasingly had to integrate rigorous compliance and cybersecurity oversight into fund operations. Additionally, with recent advances in artificial intelligence and big data analysis, fund managers are devoting larger portions of their information technology budgets towards realizing technology-based operational efficiencies. Alternative investment fund service providers have also substantially increased their scope and breadth of their operations-related services. Furthermore, investors are increasingly performing deep-dive due diligence on fund manager operations at both fund level and management company levels. This book provides current and practical guidance on the foundations of how alternative investment managers build and manage their operations. While other publications have focused on generalized overviews of historical trading procedures across multiple asset classes, and the technical intricacies of specific legacy operational procedures,Alternative Investment Operations will be the first book to focus on explaining up-to-date information on the specific real-world operational practices actually employed by alternative investment managers. This book will focus on how to actually establish and manage fund operations. Alternative Investment Operations will be an invaluable up-to-date resource for fund managers and their operations personnel as well as investors and service providers on the implementation and management of best practice operations. |
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