RT Article
T1 Shared Social Space and Strategies To Find Work: An Exploratory Study of Mexican Day Laborers in Freehold, N.J
JF Social justice
VO 35
IS 4
SP 51
OP 65
A1 Cleaveland, Carol
A1 Kelly, Laura
A2 Kelly, Laura
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747156736
AB The article focuses on strategies by foreign Mexican laborers to find work as day laborers through congregating in shared social spaces and to avoid provoking the dominant whites in a U.S. town. The authors present findings from a study in Freehold, New Jersey, where citizens formed an organization in opposition to the presence of the Mexican migrant workers. The social space is viewed in the context of the social, political and economic strata of the larger society. The efforts of the marginalized Mexicans to defuse opposition to their presence included addressing stereotypes against dirt, disease, noise and crowding.
K1 Social History
K1 Assimilation (Sociology)
K1 Social marginality -- United States
K1 Stereotypes -- Social aspects
K1 Immigration opponents
K1 Dominant culture
K1 Job hunting -- Social aspects
K1 Public spaces -- Social aspects
K1 social space
K1 Day laborers
K1 Mexican foreign workers
K1 Culture conflict