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Immigrant women workers in the neoliberal age, edited by Nilda Flores-González ... [et al.]

Label
Immigrant women workers in the neoliberal age, edited by Nilda Flores-González ... [et al.]
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Immigrant women workers in the neoliberal age
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
814455412
Responsibility statement
edited by Nilda Flores-González ... [et al.]
Table Of Contents
Introduction : immigrant women and labor disruptions / Maura Toro-Morn, Anna Romina Guevarra, and Nilda Flores-González -- Critique of the neoliberal state. Street vendors claiming respect and dignity in the neoliberal city / M. Victoria Quiroz-Becerra ; Elvira Arellano and the struggles of low-wage undocumented Latina immigrant women / Maura Toro-Morn ; This is what trafficking looks like / Grace Chang -- Ethnic enclaves. Gendered labor : experiences of Nepali women withing pan-ethnic informal labor markets in Boston and New York / Shobha Hamal Gurung and Bandana Purkayastha ; Paradoxes of patriarchy : contradicting experiences of South Asian women in ethnic labor markets / Pallavi Banerjee ; Changing expectations : economic downturns and immigrant Chinese women in New York City / Margaret M. Chin -- Informal economies. From street child care to drive-throughs : Latinas reconfigure and negotiate street vending spaces in Los Angeles / Lorena Muñoz ; Living the third shift / Latina adolescent street vendors in Los Angeles / Emir Estrada and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; Reinventing dirts work : immigrant women in nursing homes / Lucy T. Fisher and Miliann Kang ; Extending kinship : Mexicana elder care providers and their wards / María de la Luz Ibarra -- Grassroots organizing and resistance. Immigrant women workers at the center of social change : Asian immigrant women advocates / Jennifer Jihye Chun, George Lipsitz, and Young Shin ; Transfronteriza : gender rights at the border and La Colectiva Feminista Binacional / Michelle Téllez ; Formalizing the informal : highly skilled Filipina caregivers and the Pilipino Workers Center / Anna Romina Guevarra and Lolita Andrada Lledo ; FLOResiste : transnational labor, motherhood, and activism / Nilda Flores-González and Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz -- Afterword / by Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán
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