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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.
Trade Review“Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding.” -- Miguel Centeno * Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University *
"This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market." -- Nancy López * co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press) *
Table of Contents 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
