Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy

Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy
Author: Marta López-Garza
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780804780209

Experiencing both the enormous benefits and the serious detriments of globalization and economic restructuring, Southern California serves as a magnet for immigrants from many parts of the world. This volume advances an emerging body of work that centers this region's future on the links between the two fastest-growing racial groups in California, Asians and Latinos, and the economic and social mainstream of this important sector of the global economy. The contributors to the anthology—scholars and community leaders with social science, urban planning, and legal backgrounds—provide a multi-faceted analysis of gender, class, and race relations. They also examine various forms of immigrant economic participation, from low-wage workers to entrepreneurs and capital investors. Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy documents the entrenchment of various immigrant communities in the socio-political and economic fabric of United States society and these communities' role in transforming the Los Angeles region.

The Fourth Wave

The Fourth Wave
Author: Thomas Muller
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1985
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Poverty Amid Prosperity

Poverty Amid Prosperity
Author: J. Edward Taylor
Publisher: The Urban Insitute
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1997
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780877666707

This book examines the socioeconomic links among farm employment, immigration, and welfare use not only within California's Central Valley, but also along the state's Central Coast and in its southern regions. Using U.S. Census data and information collected from extensive community-level site visits, the authors find that immigration, largely from rural Mexico, is changing the face of rural California, increasing levels of population, poverty, and public service demands. The authors caution that upward mobility among these immigrant workers may be limited and that recent legislative changes are reducing the public resources available to help newcomers adjust, just as the number of immigrants is increasing.