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American dreaming : immigrant life on the margins /

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 Salva...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mahler, Sarah J., 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995.
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245 1 0 |a American dreaming :  |b immigrant life on the margins /  |c Sarah J. Mahler. 
260 |a Princeton, N.J. :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c 1995. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Leaving Home -- Chapter Three: The Trip as Personal Transformation -- Chapter Four: Great Expectations, Early Disillusionments -- Chapter Five: The Construction of Marginality -- Chapter Six: Making Money off the Margins -- Chapter Seven: Lucrative, Liminal Law -- Chapter Eight: The Encargado Industry -- Chapter Nine: Immigrants and the American Dream -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 
520 |a 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. 
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653 |a Bahamas. 
653 |a Belize. 
653 |a Chileans. 
653 |a Ecuadorans. 
653 |a Guatemalans. 
653 |a Haitians. 
653 |a Jews. 
653 |a Marielito Cubans. 
653 |a Nicaraguans. 
653 |a Odysseus. 
653 |a absentee landlords. 
653 |a accident-related lawsuits. 
653 |a aerospace industry. 
653 |a aircraft industry. 
653 |a anomie among immigrants. 
653 |a assimilationism. 
653 |a bicycling. 
653 |a bilingualism. 
653 |a birth certificates. 
653 |a blockbusting. 
653 |a boarding. 
653 |a busboys. 
653 |a calling cards. 
653 |a capital, scarcity of. 
653 |a cargo cults. 
653 |a chain migration. 
653 |a charities. 
653 |a churches. 
653 |a defense industry. 
653 |a deindustrialization. 
653 |a deportation. 
653 |a detention centers. 
653 |a dishwashers. 
653 |a economics. 
653 |a employers. 
653 |a entrepreneurship. 
653 |a ethnic enclaves. 
653 |a exclusion proceedings. 
653 |a fast-food workers. 
653 |a fictive kinship. 
653 |a formal economy. 
653 |a garment industry. 
653 |a gas stations. 
653 |a green card marriages. 
653 |a home care jobs. 
653 |a homelessness. 
653 |a homeowners. 
653 |a income: and expenses. 
653 |a insurance for cars. 
653 |a lawsuits. 
653 |a mordidas. 
653 |a multiculturalism. 
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