Immigrant women workers in the neoliberal age / edited by Nilda Flores-González ... [et al.].
| Other author | Flores-González, Nilda. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, |
| Description | xiv, 301 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013939073 |
| ISBN | 025203757X (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9780252037573 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0252079116 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780252079115 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | e-book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |