Making Los Angeles home : the integration of Mexican immigrants in the United States /

"Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social, cul...

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المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Alarcón, Rafael (مؤلف), Escala-Rabadan, Luis, 1959- (مؤلف), Odgers, Olga (مؤلف)
مؤلفون آخرون: Cluster, Dick, 1947- (المترجم), Waldinger, Roger David (writer of foreword.)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Oakland, California : University of California Press [2016]
الطبعة:English-language edition.
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt19qggq8
جدول المحتويات:
  • Theoretical perspectives on immigrant integration
  • Mexican immigration and the development of the Los Angeles metropolitan area
  • Statistical analysis of Mexican immigrants' integration in the metropolitan Los Angeles area
  • Economic integration : mobility, labor niches, and low-end jobs
  • Social integration : building a family, a community, and a life
  • Cultural integration : redefining identities in a diverse city
  • Political integration : from life in the margins to the pursuit of recognition
  • Public policies and Mexican immigrant integration in the city and county of Los Angeles.