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- Title
Shared Social Space and Strategies To Find Work: An Exploratory Study of Mexican Day Laborers in Freehold, N.J.
- Authors
Cleaveland, Carol; Kelly, Laura
- Abstract
The article focuses on strategies by foreign Mexican laborers to find work as day laborers through congregating in shared social spaces and to avoid provoking the dominant whites in a U.S. town. The authors present findings from a study in Freehold, New Jersey, where citizens formed an organization in opposition to the presence of the Mexican migrant workers. The social space is viewed in the context of the social, political and economic strata of the larger society. The efforts of the marginalized Mexicans to defuse opposition to their presence included addressing stereotypes against dirt, disease, noise and crowding.
- Subjects
FREEHOLD (N.J.); NEW Jersey; UNITED States; MEXICAN foreign workers; DAY laborers; SOCIAL space; PUBLIC spaces &; society; JOB hunting -- Social aspects; DOMINANT culture; IMMIGRATION opponents; STEREOTYPES -- Social aspects; SOCIAL marginality; CULTURE conflict; ASSIMILATION (Sociology); SOCIAL history
- Publication
Social Justice, 2008, Vol 35, Issue 4, p51
- ISSN
1043-1578
- Publication type
Article