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" Mexican immigrants in the labor market / "
Maria Luisa Amado.
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BL
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1048286
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b802656
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Amado, Maria Luisa,1962-
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Mexican immigrants in the labor market /\ Maria Luisa Amado.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC,, 2006.
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The new Americans.
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1 online resource (viii, 208 pages)
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1593322275
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: 9781593322274
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1593321333
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9781593321338
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Foreign workers, Mexican-- Social networks-- Georgia-- Atlanta.
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Foreign workers, Mexican-- Georgia-- Atlanta.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Labor.
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Foreign workers, Mexican.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Labor Industrial Relations.
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Georgia, Atlanta.
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331.6/2720758231
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HD8081.M6A82 2006eb
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