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Getting ahead : social mobility, public housing, and immigrant networks / Silvia Domínguez.
LIBRA HN59 .D643 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Domínguez, Silvia, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social mobility--United States.
- Social mobility.
- Political refugees.
- Immigrants--Social networks.
- Immigrants.
- United States.
- Immigrants--Social networks--United States.
- Acculturation--United States.
- Acculturation.
- Political refugees--Chile.
- Chileans--United States.
- Chileans.
- Chile.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 269 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Social flow
- The neighborhoods
- Social support and family life
- Leverage-based social positioning
- Family and work support
- When social positioning is not enough
- When intervention is necessary
- Immigrant networks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814720776
- 0814720773
- 9780814721216
- 0814721214
- OCLC:
- 630468504
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