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OverviewThis book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the “ethnic cage” to explain both the promise and pain of community. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rocío RosalesPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9780520319844ISBN 10: 0520319842 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 19 May 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Becoming a Frutero 3. Managing Risk on the Street 4. Personal and Professional Entanglements 5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis 6. Dos Mundos Transformed 7. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: A Personal Note on Research Notes References IndexReviewsIntimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles. * Ethnic and Racial Studies * """Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles."" * Ethnic and Racial Studies * ""Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study."" * American Journal of Sociology *" Author InformationRocío Rosales is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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