Making Los Angeles Home - The Integration of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

"A highly original book that remedies the homogenizing tendency of many scholars in the United States to paint Mexican immigrants with the same brush." —Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens

"This is an ambitious book written in the grand tradition of the migration studies classics. The authors question how America’s largest immigrant group is integrating into its main immigrant gateway city. Their answers are theoretically fresh and nuanced. Making Los Angeles Home will be read for decades to come."—David FitzGerald, coauthor of Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas

"Making Los Angeles Home is the best book we have for understanding the complexities of the integration trajectories of Mexican immigrants. This book demolishes the simplistic generalizations that are all too commonly invoked to characterize the most important immigrant group in the United States."—Richard Alba, author of Strangers No More: The Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe

List of contents

Foreword

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART ONE. Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Aspects of Mexican Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan Los Angeles

1. Theoretical Perspectives on Immigrant Integration
2. Mexican Immigration and the Development of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
3. Statistical Analysis of Mexican Immigrants’ Integration in the Metropolitan Los Angeles Area

PART TWO. Dimensions of Integration among Immigrants from Zacatecas, Oaxaca, and Veracruz

4. Economic Integration: Mobility, Labor Niches, and Low-End Jobs
5. Social Integration: Building a Family, a Community, and a Life
6. Cultural Integration: Redefining Identities in a Diverse Metropolis
7. Political Integration: From Life in the Margins to the Pursuit of Recognition

PART THREE. Government Intervention and the Immigrant Population

8. Public Policies and Mexican Immigrant Integration in the City and County of Los Angeles

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Rafael Alarcón has a PhD in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley and is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Luis Escala has a PhD in sociology from UCLA and is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Olga Odgers has a PhD in sociology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-Paris and is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Dick Cluster is a writer and translator in Oakland, California, and the former Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

 

Summary

Examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process and show that there is no single path for its achievement, but instead an array of strategies that yield different results.

Product details

Authors	Rafael Alarcaon, Rafael Alarcon, Rafael Escala Alarcon, Alarcon Rafael, Luis Escala, Escala Luis, Olga Odgers, Odgers Olga
Assisted by	Roger Waldinger (Foreword), Waldinger Roger (Foreword), Dick Cluster (Translation), Cluster Dick (Translation)
Publisher	University Of California Press
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	08.03.2016
EAN	9780520284852
ISBN	978-0-520-28485-2
No. of pages	280
Subjects	Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples

Product details

• Authors: Rafael Alarcaon, Rafael Alarcon, Rafael Escala Alarcon, Alarcon Rafael, Luis Escala, Escala Luis, Olga Odgers, Odgers Olga
• Assisted by: Roger Waldinger (Foreword), Waldinger Roger (Foreword), Dick Cluster (Translation), Cluster Dick (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.03.2016
• EAN: 9780520284852
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28485-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples