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 |
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United States |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-253) and index |
Subject |
Immigrants -- United States.
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Marginality, Social -- United States.
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LC no. |
95013473 |
ISBN |
0691037825 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0691037833 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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