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Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social, cultural, and political) and show that there is no single path for its achievement, but instead an array of strategies that yield different results. However, their analysis also shows that immigrants' successful integration essentially depends upon their legal status and long residence in the region. The book shows that, despite this finding, immigrants nevertheless decide to settle in Los Angeles, the place where they have made their homes.
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Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social, cultural, and political) and show that there is no single path for its achievement, but instead an array of strategies that yield different results. However, their analysis also shows that immigrants' successful integration essentially depends upon their legal status and long residence in the region. The book shows that, despite this finding, immigrants nevertheless decide to settle in Los Angeles, the place where they have made their homes.
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Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

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Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Making Los Angeles Home: The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

Overview

Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social, cultural, and political) and show that there is no single path for its achievement, but instead an array of strategies that yield different results. However, their analysis also shows that immigrants' successful integration essentially depends upon their legal status and long residence in the region. The book shows that, despite this finding, immigrants nevertheless decide to settle in Los Angeles, the place where they have made their homes.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520284869
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 03/08/2016
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Rafael Alarcón has a PhD in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley and is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Luis Escala has a PhD in sociology from UCLA and is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Olga Odgers has a PhD in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-Paris and is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Dick Cluster is a writer and translator in Oakland, California, and the former Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

 

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction 1

Part 1 Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Aspects of Mexican Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan Los Angeles

1 Theoretical Perspectives on Immigrant Integration 11

2 Mexican Immigration and the Development of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area 34

3 Statistical Analysis of Mexican Immigrants' Integration in the Metropolitan Los Angeles Area 58

Part 2 Dimensions of Integration Among Immigrants from Zacatecas, Oaxaca, and Veracruz

4 Economic Integration: Mobility, Labor Niches, and Low-End Jobs 83

5 Social Integration: Building a Family, a Community, and a Life 108

6 Cultural Integration: Redefining Identities in a Diverse Metropolis 132

7 Political Integration: From Life in the Margins to the Pursuit of Recognition 163

Part 3 Government Intervention and the Immigrant Population

8 Public Policies and Mexican Immigrant Integration in the City and County of Los Angeles 185

Conclusion 207

Notes 221

Bibliography 235

Index 255

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