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Against the Tide: Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Community in Jupiter, Florida

Gomberg-Muñoz, Ruth ; Steigenga, Timothy J ; Vega, Sandra Lazo de la

Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies, 2012, Vol.37 (74), p.259-262 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Kingston: Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Association Canadienne des études Latino-Américaines et Caraïbes

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  • Título:
    Against the Tide: Immigrants, Day Laborers, and Community in Jupiter, Florida
  • Autor: Gomberg-Muñoz, Ruth ; Steigenga, Timothy J ; Vega, Sandra Lazo de la
  • Assuntos: Community ; de la Vega, Sandra Lazo ; English as a Second Language ; ESL ; Florida ; Guatemala ; Immigrants ; Immigration policy ; Migration ; Nonfiction ; Policy making ; REVIEWS / RECENSIONS ; Rhetoric ; Steigenga, Timothy J ; U.S.A ; Workers
  • É parte de: Canadian Journal of Latin American & Caribbean Studies, 2012, Vol.37 (74), p.259-262
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  • Descrição: The second chapter pans outward to examine the emigration of Mayans from Guatemala, who compose the majority of Jupiter's immigrant community, and their settlement in Jupiter. The authors incorporate extensive ethnographic accounts of the conditions that drive Mayans to migrate, and they describe the transnational networks that have tunneled them from villages in Guatemala to jobsites in Jupiter. This chapter also explores how Jupiter's immigrant residents organized around social and cultural activities and, in the 1990s, mobilized in response to anti-immigrant rhetoric and the need to better articulate their own concerns as residents of the town. The book then turns to a detailed description of the debate over, and eventual creation of, a labour centre for immigrants seeking day work in Jupiter. Of particular interest, the authors show how growing connections between immigrant and non-immigrant residents of Jupiter allowed common concerns to come to the fore: all of Jupiter's residents want to live in a safe, attractive, and economically viable town. By building bridges between the immigrant and non-immigrant community, local leaders fostered the communication and trust necessary to plant the foundations for a successful centre. The day labour centre itself is then described in detail. The primary function of El Sol is labour placement for day workers, but it also offers ESL and computer classes, as well as a legal clinic that specializes in immigration-related problems. A food program means that clients receive two hot meals daily, and volunteers and worker-clients help maintain daily operations and run El Sol's many programs. By all accounts, El Sol is a resounding success story that resolves many of Jupiter's most pressing immigration-related problems.
  • Editor: Kingston: Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Association Canadienne des études Latino-Américaines et Caraïbes
  • Idioma: Inglês
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