Ethnic Markets and the Empowerment of Immigrant Women in America

ISBN-13: 9783659281433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 220 str.

Castellanos Meeks Carmen

Opis

This book seeks to understand why immigrant women from Latin America and the Caribbean chose the ethnic market as a venue to enter the US labor market and what, if any, socioeconomic benefits they derived from their participation in it. This case study uses an ethnography methodological approach to determine the impact of the Redland Harvest Market Village participation on the livelihoods of 36 immigrant women. Do immigrant women improve their livelihoods via incorporation into the ethnic market? And do they increase their sense of agency, empowerment and well-being via incorporation into the ethnic market? Immigrant women's livelihoods are the unit of analysis and income is the key modifier on this analysis. the dynamic of class, ethnicity and gender interrelated to patriarchal family structures, cultural constrictions, ethnic niches and economic enclaves within the USA as the host society are also explored.

O autorze

The author studied International Studies at the University of Miami, Coral Gables in the state of Florida, USA. Her research interests are gender and comparative development; globalization and feminization of the labor market; dynamics of international political economy from a gender prospective; poverty and sustained development.