Getting Ahead

Social Mobility, Public Housing, and Immigrant Networks

Автор: Silvia Dominguez

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Наличност: Външен склад

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Getting Ahead tells the compelling stories of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housin...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Silvia Dominguez

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2013

страници

278

EAN

9780814720783

ISBN

0814720781

Enbook ID

04931066

Издател

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Теглоt

438

Размери

163 x 230 x 18

Пълно описание

Getting Ahead tells the compelling stories of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housing in two Boston-area neighborhoods. Silvia Dominguez argues that these immigrant women parlay social ties that provide support and leverage to develop networks and achieve social positioning to get ahead. Through a rich ethnographic account and in-depth interviews, the strong voices of these women demonstrate how they successfully negotiate the world and achieve social mobility through their own individual agency, skilfully navigating both constraints and opportunities. Dominguez makes it clear that many immigrant women are able to develop the social support needed for a rich social life, and leverage ties that open options for them to develop their social and human capital. However, she also shows that factors such as neighborhood and domestic violence and the unavailability of social services leave many women without the ability to strategize towards social mobility. Ultimately, Dominguez makes important local and international policy recommendations on issue ranging from public housing to world labor visas, demonstrating how policy can help to improve the lives of these and other low-income people.

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