Immigrants at the Margins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immigrants at the Margins write by Kitty Calavita. This book was released on 2005-02-17. Immigrants at the Margins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exposes the tension between the legal status of immigrants and the government emphasis on integration.
Sex at the Margins
Sex at the Margins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex at the Margins write by Laura María Agustín. This book was released on 2007-05. Sex at the Margins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Laura Agustín presents an analysis of the position prostitutes occupy within the global economy.
At the Core and in the Margins
At the Core and in the Margins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Core and in the Margins write by Julia Albarracín. This book was released on 2016-05-01. At the Core and in the Margins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beardstown and Monmouth, Illinois, two rural Midwestern towns, have been transformed by immigration in the last three decades. This book examines how Mexican immigrants who have made these towns their homes have integrated legally, culturally, and institutionally. What accounts for the massive growth in the Mexican immigrant populations in these two small towns, and what does the future hold for them? Based on 260 surveys and 47 in-depth interviews, this study combines quantitative and qualitative research to explore the level and characteristics of immigrant incorporation in Beardstown and Monmouth. It assesses the advancement of immigrants in the immigration/ residency/citizenship process, the immigrants’ level of cultural integration (via language, their connectedness with other members of society, and their relationships with neighbors), the degree and characteristics of discrimination against immigrants in these two towns, and the extent to which immigrants participate in different social and political activities and trust government institutions. Immigrants in new destinations are likely to be poorer, to be less educated, and to have weaker English-language skills than immigrants in traditional destinations. Studying how this population negotiates the obstacles to and opportunities for incorporation is crucial.
American Dreaming
American Dreaming - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Dreaming write by Sarah J. Mahler. This book was released on 2021-02-09. American Dreaming available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Dreaming chronicles in rich detail the struggles of immigrants who have fled troubled homelands in search of a better life in the United States, only to be marginalized by the society that they hoped would embrace them. Sarah Mahler draws from her experiences living among undocumented Salvadoran and South American immigrants in a Long Island suburb of Manhattan. In moving interviews they describe their disillusionment with life in the United States but blame themselves individually or as a whole for their lack of economic success and not the greater society. As she explores the reasons behind this outlook, the author argues that marginalization fosters antagonism within ethnic groups while undermining the ethnic solidarity emphasized by many scholars of immigration. Mahler's investigation leads to conditions that often bar immigrants from success and that they cannot control, such as residential segregation, job exploitation, language and legal barriers, prejudice and outright hostility from their suburban neighbors. Some immigrants earn surplus income by using private cars as taxis, subletting space in apartments to lower rent burdens, and filling out legal forms and applications--in essence generating institutions largely parallel to those of the mainstream society whereby only a small group of entrepreneurs can profit. By exacting a price for what used to be acts of reciprocal good will in the homeland, these entrepreneurs leave people who had expected to be exploited by "Americans" feeling victimized by their own.
Living on the Margins
Living on the Margins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living on the Margins write by Alice Bloch. This book was released on 2016-01-27. Living on the Margins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Living on the margins offers a unique insight into the working lives of undocumented (or ‘irregular’) migrants living in London, and their employers. Breaking new ground, this topical book exposes the contradictions in policies, which marginalise and criminalise these migrants, while promoting exploitative labour market policies. However, the book reveals that the migrants can be active agents in shaping their lives within the constraint of status. Taking an inter-disciplinary approach, this fascinating book offers an international context to the research and provides theoretical, policy and empirical analyses. It will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics, as well as policy makers, practitioners and interested non-specialists.
