Making ends meet : income-generating strategies among Mexican immigrants /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Sarmiento, Socorro Torres.
Imprint:	New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2002.
Description:	xx, 234 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The new Americans New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- Economic conditions. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Mexican Americans -- Employment. Immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions. Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions. Globalization -- Social aspects -- United States. Economic history. Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Globalization -- Social aspects. Immigrants -- Economic conditions. Immigrants -- Social conditions. Mexican Americans -- Economic conditions. Mexican Americans -- Employment. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Social conditions United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001. United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- Tzintzuntzan (Mexico) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Mexico -- Tzintzuntzan. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4720487

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ISBN:	1931202257 (acid-free paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231) and index.

Table of Contents:

Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword (Translation of Prologo)
Prologo
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Theoretical Considerations in the Analysis of International Migrant Labor and the Impact on Family Structure
Chapter 2. Research Methodology
Chapter 3. Tzintzuntzan Historic Socio-economic Development and Migration
Chapter 4. Tzintzuntzeno's Migratory Experience: First Stage
Chapter 5. Economic Restructuring and the Migrant Labor Market in Southern California
Chapter 6. Tzintzuntzeno Families and Working Conditions
Chapter 7. Tzintzuntzeno Women and Income-Generating Strategies
Chapter 8. El Gasto: Social And Economic Strategies For Survival
Chapter 9. Concluding Observations on the Tzintzuntzenos' Income-Generating Strategies, Settlement and Transnationalism
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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