Mexican immigrants in the labor market / Maria Luisa Amado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amado, Maria Luisa, 1962-

Series:

New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

The new Americans

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, Mexican--Georgia--Atlanta.

Foreign workers, Mexican.

Foreign workers, Mexican--Social networks--Georgia--Atlanta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2006.

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-187) and index.

ISBN:

1-59332-227-5

OCLC:

568006358