Overview
- Touches on topics such as social/class stratification, sociology of work, entrepreneurship studies, inequality studies, legal capital, social capital, and immigration studies that affect a variety of disciplines
- Presents fascinating case studies from 20 latino/a communities in Los Angeles
- Explores explanations for different business outcomes from a variety of angles, including inter-generational knowledge transmission, social capital, legal capital, neighborhood wealth, and previous business knowledge
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Focusing on shopkeepers in Latino/a neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Dolores Trevizo and Mary Lopez reveal how neighborhood poverty affects the business performance of Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs. Their survey of shopkeepers in twenty immigrant neighborhoods demonstrates that even slightly less impoverished, multiethnic communities offer better business opportunities than do the highly impoverished, racially segregated Mexican neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Their findings reveal previously overlooked aspects of microclass, as well as “legal capital” advantages. The authors argue that even poor Mexican immigrants whose class backgrounds in Mexico imparted an entrepreneurial disposition can achieve a modicum of business success in the right (U.S.) neighborhood context, and the more quickly they build legal capital, the better their outcomes. While the authors show that the local place characteristics of neighborhoods both reflect and reproduce class and racial inequalities, they also demonstrate that the diversity of experience among Mexican immigrants living within the spatial boundaries of these communities can contribute to economic mobility.
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Keywords
- Entrepreneurship
- Small business
- emmigration
- immigration
- Mexican-American
- stratification
- Neighborhoods
- Stratification theory
- social capital
- Neighborhood poverty
- Class divide
- Los Angeles
- Immigration business
- Business outcomes
- Upward mobility
- inter-generational knowledge
- inter-generational mobility
- Pierre Bourdieu
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dolores Trevizo is Professor of Sociology at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Mary Lopez is Associate Professor of Economics at Occidental College, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Mary Lopez is Associate Professor of Economics at Occidental College, in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neighborhood Poverty and Segregation in the (Re-)Production of Disadvantage
Book Subtitle: Mexican Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Los Angeles
Authors: Dolores Trevizo, Mary Lopez
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73715-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73714-0Published: 15 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08841-5Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73715-7Published: 31 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 211
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Racism, Ethnicity Studies, Latin American Culture