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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sarmiento, Socorro Torres.

Series:

New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

The new Americans

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Economic conditions.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Social conditions.

Mexican Americans--Employment.

Immigrants--United States--Economic conditions.

Immigrants.

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Globalization--Social aspects--United States.

Globalization.

United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980-.

Tzintzuntzan (Mexico)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Tzintzuntzan (Mexico).

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using ethnographic interviews, Sarmiento studies how globalization affects ordinary Mexican American immigrants, shaping their families and daily lives. Even as families are divided by borders, they try to remain cohesive units. Globalization challenges immigrants to restructure their families, gender roles, and even their political boundaries. The unstable working conditions of immigrant men are decisive for the form in which families organize their income-generating strategies. However, women are key to the family economy in that they subsidize low wages through paid and unpaid work on both sides of the border.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.

ISBN:

1-931202-95-8

OCLC:

51240225