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Bad Jobs, Good Jobs, No Jobs? The Employment Experience Of The Mexican American Second Generation, Roger D. Waldinger
Bad Jobs, Good Jobs, No Jobs? The Employment Experience Of The Mexican American Second Generation, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Concern with the prospects and experience of the "new" second generation stands at the top of the immigration research agenda in the United States. In contrast to the past, many immigrant offspring appear to be rapidly heading upward, exemplified by the large number of Chinese, Korean, Indian, and other, Asian-origin students enrolled in the nation's leading universities, some the children of workers, others the descendants of immigrants who moved right into the middle-class. On the other hand, knowledgeable observers tell us that the offspring of today's poorly educated immigrants are likely to experience a very different fate. In their view, …
Conflict And Contestation In The Cross-Border Community: Hometown Associations Re-Assessed, Roger D. Waldinger
Conflict And Contestation In The Cross-Border Community: Hometown Associations Re-Assessed, Roger D. Waldinger
Roger D Waldinger
Drawing on a broad variety of field research projects among Salvadoran immigrant hometown associations in Los Angeles, conducted over a ten year period, this paper seeks to contribute to the emerging literature on hometown associations by shifting the focus to the political processes underlying associational politics and the characteristics of the organizational field that structures their activities. We argue that conflict, both among migrants in the “hostland”, and between migrants in the hostland and stay-behinds in the “homeland” is an inherent aspect of hometown association activities and their efforts to create sociability “here” and development “there.” We demonstrate that the …