Mexican immigrants in the labor market
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New York :
LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC,
2006.
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| Series: | New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
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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"
- Dónde 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.