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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826054403321

Autore

Sarmiento Socorro Torres

Titolo

Making ends meet : income-generating strategies among Mexican immigrants / / Socorro Torres Sarmiento

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2002

ISBN

1-931202-95-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

The new Americans

Disciplina

330.973/0929/0896872

Soggetti

Mexican Americans - Economic conditions

Mexican Americans - Social conditions

Mexican Americans - Employment

Immigrants - United States - Economic conditions

Immigrants - United States - Social conditions

Globalization - Social aspects - United States

United States Economic conditions 1981-2001

United States Social conditions 1980-

Tzintzuntzan (Mexico) Emigration and immigration Social aspects

United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects

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 (p. 217-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword (Translation of Prologo) -- Prologo -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical Considerations in the Analysis of International Migrant Labor and the Impact on Family Structure -- 2 Research Methodology -- 3 Tzintzuntzan Historic Socio-economic Development and Migration -- 4 Tzintzuntzeno's Migratory Experience: First Stage -- 5 Economic Restructuring and the Migrant Labor Market in Southern California -- 6 Tzintzuntzeno Families and Working Conditions -- 7 Tzintzuntzeno Women and Income- Generating Strategies -- 8 El Gasto: Social And Economic Strategies For Survival -- 9 Concluding Observations on the Tzintzuntze"osÌ Income-Generating Strategies, Settlement and Transnationalism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.