From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders

Migrating Women, Class, and Color

Norma Fuentes-Mayorga (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2213-9 (ISBN)

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Compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City. The book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions women make to their communities of origin and of settlement.

In From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City, a traditional destination for Dominicans but a relatively new one for Mexicans. Her book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions women make to their communities of origin and of settlement. Fuentes-Mayorga’s research is timely, especially against the backdrop of policy debates about the future of family reunification laws and the unprecedented immigration of women and minors from Latin America, many of whom seek human rights protection or to reunite with families in the US. From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders provides a compelling look at the suffering of migrant mothers and the mourning of family separation, but also at the agency and contributions that women make with their imported human capital and remittances to the receiving and sending community. Ultimately the book contributes further understanding to the heterogeneity of Latin American immigration and highlights the social mobility of Afro-Caribbean and indigenous migrant women in New York.

NORMA FUENTES-MAYORGA is an associate professor in the department of sociology and the Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program at the City College of New York. Before joining City College, she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Migration and Development (CMD) and an assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University.

Prologue

1 Introduction

2 The Migration of Women and Race: A Typology

3 The New Spaces and Faces of Immigrant Neighborhoods

in New York City

4 “Unos Duermen de Noche y Otros de Día”: The Living

Arrangements of Undocumented Families

5 An Intersectional View at Social Mobility, Race,

and Migration

6 “¡Y Ellos Pensaban que Yo Era Blanca!” Racial Capital

and Ambiguous Identities

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.03.2023
Zusatzinfo	2 b&w images, 11 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2213-8 / 1978822138
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2213-9 / 9781978822139
Zustand	Neuware