Mexican Immigrants in the Labor Market: The Strength of Strong Ties

Mexican Immigrants in the Labor Market: The Strength of Strong Ties
Maria Luisa Amado
May 2006

ISBN-13:  978-1-59332-133-8 / Hardcover
Dimensions:  5.5 x 8.5 / viii, 208 pages

Price   $60.00

Description

Amado examines the job seeking strategies of recent Mexican immigrants in Atlanta. She explores the resources available to job seekers within and outside their immigrant networks and the role of kinship during migration and settlement. Strong ties are primary sources of support and job information for new arrivals. Ties of kinship and paisanaje are effective work links among male workers involved in dense occupational networks of fellow immigrants. This is especially true among informal workers in industries that rely on abundant migrant labor. Women are less likely to benefit from these connections due to labor market and network segregation along gender lines.

About the Author

Maria Luisa Amado was born and lived in Panama until 1995. She was a Fulbright Scholar between 1989 and 1991 and earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at Emory University in 2003. Since 2002, she has been an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Guilford College, where she teaches Sociology as well as courses related to Latin American societies and migration patterns.