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anthropology
Author_Cecilia Menjivar
belonging
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central america
el salvador
emigration
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ethnic studies
ethnicity
ethnography
gender studies
immigrant experience
immigrant life
immigrant networks
immigrant solidarity
immigrants
immigration
immigration policy
latin america
mexico
migrant
mission district
nonfiction
poverty
public health
recent migrants
salvadoran immigrants
san francisco
social justice
social networks
social science
sociology
Product details
- ISBN 9780520222113
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In one of the most comprehensive treatments of Salvadoran immigration to date, Cecilia Menjivar gives a vivid and detailed account of the inner workings of the networks by which immigrants leave their homes in Central America to start new lives in the Mission District of San Francisco. Menjivar traces crucial aspects of the immigrant experience, from reasons for leaving El Salvador, to the long and perilous journey through Mexico, to the difficulty of finding work, housing, and daily necessities in San Francisco. Fragmented Ties argues that hostile immigration policies, shrinking economic opportunities, and a resource-poor community make assistance conditional and uneven, deflating expectations both on the part of the new immigrants and the relatives who preceded them. In contrast to most studies of immigrant life that identify networks as viable sources of assistance, this one focuses on a case in which poverty makes it difficult for immigrants to accumulate enough resources to help each other. Menjivar also examines how class, gender, and age affect immigrants' access to social networks and scarce community resources.
The immigrants' voices are stirring and distinctive: they describe the dangers they face both during the journey and once they arrive, and bring to life the disappointments and joys that they experience in their daily struggle to survive in their adopted community.
Cecilia Menjivar is Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. Menjivar won the Julian Samora Distinguished Career Award from the Latino/a Sociology section of the American Sociological Association.
