Between Two Islands

Name: Between Two Islands
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520071506
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Dominican International Migration

Szerző: Patricia R. Pessar

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of California Press

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Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too of...

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Szerző

Patricia R. Pessar

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1991

oldal

280

EAN

9780520071506

ISBN

9780520071506

Enbook ID

06222564

Kiadó

University of California Press

Súly

408

Méretek

152 x 229 x 20

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Popular notions about migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean are too often distorted by memories of earlier European migrations and by a tendency to generalize from the more familiar cases of Mexico and Puerto Rico. "Between Two Islands" is an interdisciplinary study of Dominican migration, challenging many widespread, yet erroneous, views concerning the socio-economic background of new immigrants and the causes and consequences of their move to the United States.Eschewing monocausal treatments of migration, the authors insist that migration is a multifaceted process involving economic, political, and socio-cultural factors. To this end, they introduce an innovative analytical framework which includes such determinants as the international division of labor; state policy in the sending and receiving societies; class relations; transnational migrant households; social networks; and gender and generational hierarchies.By adopting this multidimensional approach, Grasmuck and Pessar are able to account for many intriguing paradoxes of Dominican migration and development of the Dominican population in the U.S. For example, why is it that the peak in migration coincided with a boom in Dominican economic growth? Why did most of the immigrants settle in New York City at the precise moment the metropolitan economy was experiencing stagnation and severe unemployment? And why do most immigrants claim to have achieved social mobility and middle-class standing despite employment in menial blue-collar jobs?Until quite recently, studies of international migration have emphasized the male migrant, while neglecting the role of women and their experiences.Grasmuck and Pessar's attempt to remedy this uneven perspective results in a better overall understanding of Dominican migration. For instance, they find that with regard to wages and working conditions, it is a greater liability to be female than to be without legal status. They

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