Fruteros : street vending, illegality, and ethnic community in Los Angeles / Rocío Rosales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rosales, Rocío, 1983- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Street vendors--California--Los Angeles.

Street vendors.

Ethnic neighborhoods--California--Los Angeles.

Ethnic neighborhoods.

Immigrants--California--Los Angeles--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Hispanic Americans--Social conditions.

Hispanic Americans.

Latin America--Emigration and immigration.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the “ethnic cage” to explain both the promise and pain of community.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

1. Introduction

2. Becoming a Frutero

3. Managing Risk on the Street

4. Personal and Professional Entanglements

5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis

6. Dos Mundos Transformed

7. Conclusion

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Appendix: A Personal Note on Research

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780520974166

0520974166

OCLC:

1158094469