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Malpica, Daniel Melero.

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Indigenous Mexican migrants in the city of Los Angeles: Social networks and social capital among Zapotec workers.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Indigenous Mexican migrants in the city of Los Angeles: Social networks and social capital among Zapotec workers./
Author:	Malpica, Daniel Melero.
Description:	141 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Edward E. Telles.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-02A.
Subject:	Hispanic American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3302581
ISBN:	9780549484936

Indigenous Mexican migrants in the city of Los Angeles: Social networks and social capital among Zapotec workers.
Malpica, Daniel Melero.

Indigenous Mexican migrants in the city of Los Angeles: Social networks and social capital among Zapotec workers. - 141 p.

Adviser: Edward E. Telles.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2008.

Indigenous Mexicans form the largest share of the new Mexican migrants arriving to the United States. Better job opportunities and more attractive wages coupled with severe unemployment and exploitative conditions at home have encouraged indigenous people to migrate in search of employment to the United States. As a result, indigenous Mexican have come to el norte in record numbers and have reshaped Mexican communities in the United States. In the dissertation, I explore how social capital and social networks influence the social and economic incorporation of indigenous Mexican migrants into the United States. In particular, I examine what kind of work indigenous Mexicans do, how they find work, and how they struggle to work in the new low-wage economy, raise families, and move ahead.

ISBN: 9780549484936Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017793
Hispanic American Studies.

Indigenous Mexican migrants in the city of Los Angeles: Social networks and social capital among Zapotec workers.
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520 $a Based on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with Zapotec indigenous migrants from Oaxaca (Mexico) who are living in Los Angeles, the dissertation seeks to shed light on the dynamic processes of family and ethnic networks in contemporary labor markets. Despite facing racial and ethnic discrimination from Americans in general as well as from mestizo Mexican immigrants who deride them for their dark skin, short height, and "backward" culture, Zapotec migrants seem to have adapted quite adequately to the United States. This dissertation illustrates how indigenous Mexicans cope with their new conditions as they adapt to their new home. The research highlights that indigenous Mexicans can count on social networks, family ties, and communities to mobilize resources more easily and effectively, including the ability to find work. Zapotec migrants rely on their networks and communities; in so doing, they strengthen these institutions and thereby accumulate social capital. This ethnographic analysis pays particular attention to how indigenous Mexicans generate social capital to obtain resources for survival and social mobility.
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