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"This text addresses two important issues that have been neglected in the current debate on urban minorities and labour markets: the role of geographical processes in shaping the employment situation of urban minority youths, and the social production of space and place. As a case study, Harald Bauder draws on census date and ethnographic fieldwork with Latino youths and administrators of community-based institutions in two inner-city neighbourhoods of San Antonio. Bauder demonstrates how the depiction of urban minority youths as ""dysfunctional"" and ""deviant"" interlocks with labour market segmentation to isolate and exclude some inner-city neighbourhoods from the wider social fabric of cities. Although this case study deals with second and third generation Latinos in a booming Sunbelt city, the volume unearths fundamental geographical and social processes that are reflective of other cities in which ethnic composition and economic conditions are different."

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Work on the West Side is...a provocative book, building bridges between cultural and urban studies and explicitly seeking out mutual aspects of both fields. Urban Studies

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Harald Bauder is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Guelph.

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