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Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles - Couverture souple

Rosales, Rocío

 
9780520319851: Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520319850 ISBN 13 : 9780520319851
Editeur : University of California Press, 2020

Synopsis

This book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape.

Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the "ethnic cage" to explain both the promise and pain of community.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rocío Rosales is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.

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    Éditeur
    University of California Press
    Date d'édition
    2020
    Langue
    anglais
    ISBN 10 
    0520319850
    ISBN 13 
    9780520319851
    Reliure
    Broché
    Nombre de pages
    208
    Coordonnées du fabricant
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    Personne responsable
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