Seeking Community in a Global City
Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11094077 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cecilia Menjívar (0000-0002-7061-509X), Norma Stoltz Chinchilla |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 174 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Seeking community in a global city: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles, Nora Hamilton, 2001 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3089502 |
| OpenAlex | W2087913844 |
| Language | EN |
CONTENTS List of Maps and Tables Preface 1. Introduction 2. Origins and Patterns of Central American Migration 3. Negotiating the Urban Scene 4. The Struggle for Survival: Working in Los Angeles 5. Seeking Justice, Challenging Policy 6. The 1990s: Changing Contexts, Shifting Expectations 7. Organizing Locally and Transnationally: Changing Priorities, Strategies, and Alliances 8. The Elusive Community: Salvadorans and Guatemalans in Los Angeles Appendix A: Chronology of Events Appendix B: Partial List of Informants Notes References Index
Geography · Political science · Sociology · Latin American and Latino Studies
Collective Remittances and Migrant-State Collaboration in Mexico and El Salvador
Doing' Transnationalism
Survival, Economic Mobility and Community among Los Angeles Fruit Vendors
Support and setback
Place and presence within Salvadoran deportees' narratives of removal
Race, Class, and Revolution
Immigration and Women's Empowerment
The Urban Question Revisited
Si Nicaragua Venció, El Salvador Vencerá
Migración de guatemaltecos a México y Estados Unidos a partir de la Encuesta sobre migración en la frontera Guatemala-México 2004
Connections between U.S. Female Migration and Family Formation and Dissolution
Central Americans in the City
Adelante Mujer
Re/membering the Nation
“ Allá en Guatemala ”
At the Intersection of Transnationalism, Latina/o Immigrants, and Education
Más allá de la domesticidad. Un análisis de género de los trabajos de los inmigrantes en el sector informal
How Maquiladora Industries Contribute to Mexico-U.S. Labor Migration
Work Primacy and the Social Incorporation of Unaccompanied, Undocumented Latinx Youth in the United States
Mario Bencastro's Diaspora
Oakland’s Mayan Diaspora Overcomes Language Barriers and Finds Refuge in Radio B’alam
Analytic Borderlands
Globalization and the Formation of Claims
Católicos
From Sanctuary to Safe Space
Danzas Chuscas
Wage-Labor Migration and Class in Jalisco and the United States
Toward a Transnationalism of the Middle
The Sanctuary Movement and Central American Activism in Los Angeles
When Mothers and Fathers Migrate North
Maya Cultural Resistance in Los Angeles
Transnational Migration and Development in Postwar Peripheral States
The Spatially Ruptured Practices of Migrant Families
New World Orders
Census, Map, Museum (Revisited)
Second-generation Central Americans and the formation of an ethnoracial identity in Los Angeles
Guatemala's Ladino and Maya Migra Landscapes
No Safe Space
Latino/a Immigrant Street Vendors in Los Angeles
Racialized Guatemalan Migrant Labor and Grassroots Civil Societies in the Greater Los Angeles Region
Transnational dimensions of the digital divide among Salvadoran immigrants in the Washington DC metropolitan area
Workers Wanted
Through our own eyes and voices
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and the Integration of Central American Unaccompanied Minors
Anticolonial Anti-Intervention
Maya USA
Framing Latina/o Immigration, Education, and Activism
At home in inner-city immigrant community gardens
Shifting Trends in Central American Migration
It Was Kind of a Dream Come True”
Welcome to the Front Seat
The 2006 Mega Marchas in Greater Los Angeles
Sleuthing Central American Identity and History in the New Latino South
Departamento 15”
US Central Americans
I Can’t Go to College Because I Don’t Have Papers”
Contesting citizenship from below
Transplanting the organizing seed
An interdisciplinary reading of Chicana/o and (US) Central American cross-cultural narrations
US Central American relational identity formation in Maya Chinchilla’s and Leticia Hernández-Linares’s poetics
Central American immigrant workers and legal violence in Phoenix, Arizona
Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier and the Latino/a trauma narrative
Ka Tzij
Racialized illegality
Processing Latinidad
Central American counterpublic mobilization
CentAmStudies from a social science perspective
Central American panethnic identities and the politics of solidarity in Los Angeles
The repositioning of citizenship and alienage
Intra-Latina/Latino encounters
Complexities of belonging
Time for new urban ethnographies
When Ties Don't Bind
Migrant "Illegality" and Deportability in Everyday Life
Solamente Mexicanos? Patterns and sources of Hispanic diversity in U.S. metropolitan areas
Recasting Border Crossing Politics and Pedagogies to Combat Educational Inequity
Land, ethnic, and gender change
Yamashita's Post-National Spaces
Nuestra Los Angeles
The Battle of Los Angeles
Liminal Legality
Organisational legitimacy beyond ethnicity? Shifting organisational logics in the struggle for immigrant rights in Los Angeles
The networked grassroots. How radicals outflanked reformists in the United States' immigrant rights movement
Migrant cities
Post-Multicultural Cities
The urbanisation of justice movements? Possibilities and constraints for the city as a space of contentious struggle
Finding sequins in the rubble
Urban Development and the Growth with Equity Framework
Temporary Protection, Enduring Contradiction
Intersectional Dignities
Migrant Civil Society
Whither the urban diaspora? The spatial redistribution of Latino origin groups in metropolitan America since 1990
En búsqueda de los salvadoreños en los Estados Unidos
Gastronomic Nostalgia
Migration and paraethnography in Honduras
On the Character and Organization of Unregulated Work in the Cities of the United States
Crossing the border from boyhood to manhood
Vulnerable and Resilient
Crafting connections
Documenting the Undocumented
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