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Author Mahler, Sarah J., 1959-

Title American dreaming : immigrant life on the margins / Sarah J. Mahler
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
©1995

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 W'PONDS  305.56 Mah/Adi  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Leaving Home -- Ch. 3. The Trip as Personal Transformation -- Ch. 4. Great Expectations, Early Disillusionments -- Ch. 5. The Construction of Marginality -- Ch. 6. Making Money off the Margins -- Ch. 7. Lucrative, Liminal Law -- Ch. 8. The Encargado Industry -- Ch. 9. Immigrants and the American Dream
Analysis Immigrants Social life
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-253) and index
Subject Immigrants -- United States.
Marginality, Social -- United States.
LC no. 95013473
ISBN 0691037825 (paperback: alk. paper)
0691037833 (cloth : alk. paper)