Making ends meet : income-generating strategies among Mexican immigrants /
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| Author / Creator: | Sarmiento, Socorro Torres. |
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| Imprint: | New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2002. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The new Americans New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117424 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1931202958 9781931202954 1931202257 9781931202251 1593320361 9781593320362 |