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American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins »
Authors: Sarah J. Mahler
ISBN-13: 9780691037820, ISBN-10: 0691037825
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: October 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Sarah J. Mahler
Book Synopsis
"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 Illustrations | ||
| List of Maps and Tables | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Leaving Home | 31 |
| Ch. 3 | The Trip as Personal Transformation | 58 |
| Ch. 4 | Great Expectations, Early Disillusionments | 83 |
| Ch. 5 | The Construction of Marginality | 105 |
| Ch. 6 | Making Money off the Margins | 138 |
| Ch. 7 | Lucrative, Liminal Law | 159 |
| Ch. 8 | The Encargado Industry | 188 |
| Ch. 9 | Immigrants and the American Dream | 214 |
| Notes | 235 | |
| Bibliography | 243 | |
| Index | 255 |
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