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Mexican immigrants in the labor market

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amado, Maria Luisa, 1962-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2006.
Series:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Subjects:
Foreign workers, Mexican > Georgia > Atlanta.
Foreign workers, Mexican > Social networks > Georgia > Atlanta.
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Table of Contents:
  • Mexican immigrants in the Atlanta job market
  • The study
  • Mexican immigrants in the "New South"
  • The debate: strong versus weak network ties
  • Y nosotras, qu? engendering immigrant networks
  • Sociological perspectives on networks and job seeking
  • Job-seeking and network ties
  • Strong ties, settlement, and job seeking amongst Latin American immigrants in the U.S
  • Immigrant women's networks: the salience of gender in network formation and development
  • Investigating Mexican immigrants in Atlanta: field research and data collection
  • Research setting and study participants
  • Data collection
  • Data analyses
  • Profile of the informants
  • Socio-demographic characteristics
  • Migration history
  • Network connections upon arrival in the host society
  • Weak and strong ties in the immigrant network
  • Redefining strong and weak ties
  • Ties of paisanaje
  • "El coyote"
  • Donde hay chamba? looking for a job in Atlanta
  • Formal job-seeking strategies
  • Men at work: informal job seeking strategies amongst male immigrants
  • From braceros to braceras: informal job-seeking strategies amongst female immigrants
  • The strength of strong ties: men's stories of paisanaje
  • Hermanos que dan la mano: case study of an immigrant supported by his paisanos
  • Ties that bind: relatives and friends as work links
  • What matters is who you know
  • Los esquinados: "free men" in a wild market
  • The long and lonely road: case study of an immigrant without network ties in the U.S
  • Street corner sociology: understanding la esquina as a job market
  • Marginal paisanas: women's stories
  • Unfulfilled dreams: case study of a woman who relied on weak ties
  • Bound in the household and unbound in the market
  • Gender matters
  • Conclusion
  • The debate: strong or weak ties?
  • Who draws strength from strong ties? The significance of gender
  • Social networks revisited
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix I
  • Interview guide (Spanish version)
  • English version
  • Appendix II.

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