TY  - BOOK
AU  - Domínguez,Silvia
TI  - Getting ahead: social mobility, public housing, and immigrant networks 
SN  - 9780814721216
AV  - HN59 .D643 2011eb
U1  - 305.5/130869120973 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - United States
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Acculturation
KW  - Political refugees
KW  - Chile
KW  - Chileans
KW  - Mobilité sociale
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Chiliens
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Social Classes
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Sociology
KW  - General
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-258) and index; Social flow -- The neighborhoods -- Social support and family life -- Leverage-based social positioning -- Family and work support -- When social positioning is not enough -- When intervention is necessary -- Immigrant networks
N2  - Getting Ahead tells the compelling stories of Latin-American immigrant women living in public housing in two Boston-area neighborhoods. Silvia Domínguez argues that these immigrant women parlay social ties that provide support and leverage to develop networks and achieve social positioning to get ahead. Through a rich ethnographic account and in-depth interviews, the strong voices of these women demonstratehow they successfully negotiate the world and achieve social mobility through their own individual agency, skillfullynavigating both constraints and opportunities. Domínguez makes it clear t
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