Making New York Dominican [[electronic resource] ] : small business, politics, and everyday life / / Christian Krohn-Hansen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463744803321
• Autore: Krohn-Hansen Christian <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013
• ISBN: 0-8122-0754-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Collana: The city in the twenty-first century
• Disciplina: 305.8968/72930730747
• Soggetti: Dominican Americans - New York (State) - New York - Economic conditions - 21st century; Dominican Americans - New York (State) - New York - Politics and government - 21st century; Dominican Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social life and customs - 21st century; Small business - New York (State) - New York - History - 21st century; Electronic books.; New York (N.Y.) Ethnic relations History 21st century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter 1. From Quisqueya to New York City -- Chapter 2. Origin Stories -- Part II -- Chapter 3. From Bodegas to Supermarkets -- Chapter 4. From Livery Cabs to Black Cars -- Part III -- Chapter 5. Dominicans and Hispanics -- Chapter 6. Up Against the Big Money -- Chapter 7. In Search of Dignity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Large-scale emigration from the Dominican Republic began in the early 1960's, with most Dominicans settling in New York City. Since then the growth of the city's Dominican population has been staggering, now accounting for around 7 percent of the total populace. How have Dominicans influenced New York City? And, conversely, how has the move to New York affected their lives? In Making New York Dominican, Christian Krohn-Hansen considers these questions through an exploration of Dominican immigrants' economic and political practices and through their constructions of identity and belonging. Krohn-; Hansen focuses especially on Dominicans in the small business sector, in particular the bodega and supermarket and taxi and black car industries. While studies of immigrant business and entrepreneurship have been predominantly quantitative, using survey data or public statistics, this work employs business ethnography to demonstrate how Dominican enterprises work, how people find economic openings, and how Dominicans who own small commercial ventures have formed political associations to promote and defend their interests. The study shows convincingly how Dominican businesses over the past three decades have made a substantial mark on New York neighborhoods and the city's political economy. Making New York Dominican is not about a Dominican enclave or a parallel sociocultural universe. It is instead about connections-between Dominican New Yorkers' economic and political practices and ways of thinking and the much larger historical, political, economic, and cultural field within which they operate. Throughout, Krohn-Hansen underscores that it is crucial to analyze four sets of processes: the immigrants' forms of work, their everyday life, their modes of participation in political life, and their negotiation and building of identities. Making New York Dominican offers an original and significant contribution to the scholarship on immigration, the Latinization of New York, and contemporary forms of globalization.