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Author Alarcón, Rafael, author.

Title Making Los Angeles home : the integration of Mexican immigrants in the United States / Rafael Alarcón, Luis Escala, Olga Odgers ; translated by Dick Cluster ; foreword by Roger Waldinger
Edition English-language edition
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 259 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Theoretical perspectives on immigrant integration -- Mexican immigration and the development of the Los Angeles metropolitan area -- Statistical analysis of Mexican immigrants' integration in the metropolitan Los Angeles area -- Economic integration : mobility, labor niches, and low-end jobs -- Social integration : building a family, a community, and a life -- Cultural integration : redefining identities in a diverse city -- Political integration : from life in the margins to the pursuit of recognition -- Public policies and Mexican immigrant integration in the city and county of Los Angeles
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index
Notes Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed April 13, 2016)
Subject Mexicans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions
Mexican Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- California -- Los Angeles -- Social conditions
Social integration -- California -- Los Angeles
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Mexican Americans -- Social conditions
Mexicans -- Social conditions
Social integration
SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Subject California -- Los Angeles
Mexico
Form Electronic book
Author Escala-Rabadan, Luis, 1959- author.
Odgers, Olga, author.
Cluster, Dick, 1947- translator.
Waldinger, Roger David, writer of foreword.
ISBN 9780520960527
0520960521