Price of Poverty
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american citizens
Author_Dan Dohan
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barrios
california
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chicano citizens
class differences
contemporary america
cross cultural experiences
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ethnographers
ethnographic study
fieldwork
financial concerns
impoverished communities
latino poverty
latinos
los angeles
low wage jobs
mexican american communities
mexican american culture
mexican americans
mexican immigrants
modern history
money and culture
poverty
public assistance
recent immigrants
regional survey
silicon valley
work culture
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9780520238893
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2003
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities--one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens--this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California's high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such as: What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?
Daniel Dohan is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
