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Chronicles the struggles of immigrants who have fled their homelands in search of a better life in the United States, only to be marginalized by the society that they hoped would embrace them. This book argues that marginalization fosters antagonism within ethnic groups while undermining the ethnic solidarity emphasized by scholars of immigration.

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"Essential reading for anyone concerned with the real life of the nation's new immigrants, racial stratification in suburbia, and the contradictory consequences of U.S. immigration policy."—Katherine S. Newman, Columbia University

Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsList of Maps and TablesAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2Leaving Home31Ch. 3The Trip as Personal Transformation58Ch. 4Great Expectations, Early Disillusionments83Ch. 5The Construction of Marginality105Ch. 6Making Money off the Margins138Ch. 7Lucrative, Liminal Law159Ch. 8The Encargado Industry188Ch. 9Immigrants and the American Dream214Notes235Bibliography243Index255

American Dreaming Immigrant Life on the Margins

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 5 November 1995
      ISBN-13 9780691037820
      978-0691037820
      ISBN-10 0691037825

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Chronicles the struggles of immigrants who have fled their homelands in search of a better life in the United States, only to be marginalized by the society that they hoped would embrace them. This book argues that marginalization fosters antagonism within ethnic groups while undermining the ethnic solidarity emphasized by scholars of immigration.

      Trade Review
      "Essential reading for anyone concerned with the real life of the nation's new immigrants, racial stratification in suburbia, and the contradictory consequences of U.S. immigration policy."—Katherine S. Newman, Columbia University

      Table of Contents
      List of IllustrationsList of Maps and TablesAcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2Leaving Home31Ch. 3The Trip as Personal Transformation58Ch. 4Great Expectations, Early Disillusionments83Ch. 5The Construction of Marginality105Ch. 6Making Money off the Margins138Ch. 7Lucrative, Liminal Law159Ch. 8The Encargado Industry188Ch. 9Immigrants and the American Dream214Notes235Bibliography243Index255

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