Making Los Angeles home
Subtitle: the integration of Mexican immigrants in the United States
By: Rafael Alarcón, Luis Escala, Olga Odgers ; translated by Dick Cluster
Contributors: Escala-Rabadan, Luis, 1959- author; Odgers, Olga, author
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780520284869; 9780520284852
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Mexicans; Mexican Americans; Social conditions; Social aspects; Social integration; Immigrants
Work titles: Mudando el hogar al norte
Description: "Making Los Angeles Home examines the different integration strategies implemented by Mexican immigrants in the Los Angeles region. Relying on statistical data and ethnographic information, the authors analyze four different dimensions of the immigrant integration process (economic, social, cultural, and political) and show that there is no single path for its achievement, but instead an array of strategies that yield different results. However, their analysis also shows that immigrants' successful integration essentially depends upon their legal status and long residence in the region. The book shows that, despite this finding, immigrants nevertheless decide to settle in Los Angeles, the place where they have made their homes"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Translation of: Mudando el hogar al norte : trayectorias de integración de los inmigrantes mexicanos en Los Ángeles. Tijuana, B.C., México : El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Theoretical perspectives on immigrant integration; title: Mexican immigration and the development of the Los Angeles metropolitan area; title: Statistical analysis of Mexican immigrants' integration in the metropolitan Los Angeles area; title: Economic integration : mobility, labor niches, and low-end jobs; title: Social integration : building a family, a community, and a life; title: Cultural integration : redefining identities in a diverse city; title: Political integration : from life in the margins to the pursuit of recognition; title: Public policies and Mexican immigrant integration in the city and county of Los Angeles.