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Title	Asian and Latino immigrants in a restructuring economy : the metamorphosis of Southern California / edited by Marta López-Garza & David R. Diaz
Published	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2001]
Copyright	©2001

Location	Call number	ITEM STATUS
MAIN STACKS	HD8083.C2 A8 2001	AVAILABLE

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Description	xvi, 467 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary	Undergoing both the enormous benefits and detriments of globalization and economic restructuring, Southern California serves as a magnet for immigrants from many parts of the world. This volume advances an emerging body of work that centers this region's future on the links between the two fastest growing racial groups in California, Asians and Latinos, and the economic and social mainstream of this important sector of the global economy. The contributors to the anthology - scholars and community leaders with social science, urban planning, and legal backgrounds - provide a multi-faceted analysis of gender, class, and race relations. They also examine various forms of immigrant economic participation, from low wage workers to entrepreneurs and capital investors. Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy documents the entrenchment of various immigrant communities into their socio-political and economic fabric of United States society and their part in transforming the Los Angeles region
Subject	Foreign workers -- California -- Case studies
	Asian Americans -- Case studies
	Hispanic Americans -- California -- Case studies
	California, Southern -- Economic conditions
Academic Subj.	Business
Alternate Author	López-Garza, Marta C. (Marta Christina), 1951-
	Diaz, David R., 1951-
ISBN	0804736308 (alkaline paper
	9780804736305 (alkaline paper
	0804736326 (paperback)
	0804736316
	9780804736312

Table of Contents
Part I	Women In The Global Economy		19
	2.	Exploitation and Abuse in the Garment Industry: The Case of the Thai Slave-Labor Compound in El Monte / Julie A. Su, Chanchanit Martorell	21
	3.	Through Economic Restructuring, Recession, and Rebound: The Continuing Importance of Latina Immigrant Labor in the Los Angeles Economy / Kristine M. Zentgraf	46
Part II	Macroeconomics		75
	4.	The Promises and Dilemmas of Immigrant Ethnic Economies / Tarry Hum	77
	5.	Economics and Ethnicity: Poverty, Race, and Immigration in Los Angeles County / Manuel Pastor, Jr.	102
Part III	The Informal Economy In Southern California		139
	6.	A Study of the Informal Economy and Latina/o Immigrants in Greater Los Angeles / Marta Lopez-Garza	141
	7.	Labor behind the Front Door: Domestic Workers in Urban and Suburban Households / Grace A. Rosales	169
	8.	Doing Business: Central American Enterprises in Los Angeles / Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, Nora Hamilton	188
Part IV	Changing Political and Social Terrain		215
	9.	Latino Street Vendors in Los Angeles: Heterogeneous Alliances, Community-Based Activism, and the State / Clair M. Weber	217
	10.	The Politics of Social Services for a "Model Minority": The Union of Pan Asian Communities / Linda Trinh Vo	241
	11.	Community Divided: Korean American Politics in Post-Civil Unrest Los Angeles / Edward J. W. Park	273
	12.	Constructing "Indianness" in Southern California: The Role of Hindu and Muslim Indian Immigrants / Prema Kurien	289
	13.	A New and Dynamic Community: The Case of Monterey Park, California / Timothy P. Fong	313
	14.	The Politics of Adaptation and the "Good Immigrant": Japanese Americans and the New Chinese Immigrants / Leland T. Saito	332
Part V	Ethnicity, Race, And Racism		351
	15.	Variation in Attitudes toward Immigrants Measured among Latino, African American, Asian, and Euro-American Students / Grace A. Rosales, Mona Devich Navarro, Desdemona Cardosa	353
	16.	Racialized Metropolis: Theorizing Asian American and Latino Identities and Ethnicities in Southern California / ChorSwang Ngin, Rodolfo D. Torres	368
Part VI	Social Policy		391
	17.	Salvadoran Immigrants and Refugees: Demographic and Socioeconomic Profiles / Claudia Dorrington	393
	18.	Environmental Logic and Minority Communities / David R. Diaz	425

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