num_pages: 316
description: Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two impoverished California communities―one made up of recent immigrants from Mexico, the other of U.S.-born Chicano citizens―this book provides an invaluable comparative perspective on Latino poverty in contemporary America. In northern California’s high-tech Silicon Valley, author Daniel Dohan shows how recent immigrants get by on low-wage babysitting and dish-cleaning jobs. In the housing projects of Los Angeles, he documents how families and communities of U.S.-born Mexican Americans manage the social and economic dislocations of persistent poverty. Taking readers into worlds where public assistance, street crime, competition for low-wage jobs, and family, pride, and cross-cultural experiences intermingle, The Price of Poverty offers vivid portraits of everyday life in these Mexican American communities while addressing urgent policy questions such What accounts for joblessness? How can we make sense of crime in poor communities? Does welfare hurt or help?
language: English
title: The Price of Poverty
titlecomplete: The Price of Poverty
ratings_count: 13
publisher: University of California Press