Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age

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Contents Foreword by Mary Romero ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Immigrant Women and Labor Disruptions 1 Maura Toro-Morn, Anna Romina Guevarra, and Nilda Flores-González Part 1. critique of the Neoliberal state 1. Street Vendors Claiming Respect and Dignity in the Neoliberal City 19 M. Victoria Quiroz-Becerra 2. Elvira Arellano and the Struggles of Low-Wage Undocumented Latina Immigrant Women 38 Maura Toro-Morn 3. This Is What Trafficking Looks Like 56 Grace Chang Part 2. Ethnic Enclaves 4. Gendered Labor: Experiences of Nepali Women within Pan-Ethnic Informal Labor Markets in Boston and New York 81 Shobha Hamal Gurung and Bandana Purkayastha 5. Paradoxes of Patriarchy: Contradicting Experiences of South Asian Women in Ethnic Labor Markets 96 Pallavi Banerjee 6. Changing Expectations: Economic Downturns and Immigrant Chinese Women in New York City 117 Margaret M. Chin Part 3. informal Economies 7. From Street Child Care to Drive-Throughs: Latinas Reconfigure and Negotiate Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles 133 Lorena Muñoz 8. Living the Third Shift: Latina Adolescent Street Vendors in Los Angeles 144 Emir Estrada and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 9. Reinventing Dirty Work: Immigrant Women in Nursing Homes 164 Lucy T. Fisher and Miliann Kang 10. Extending Kinship: Mexicana Elder Care Providers and Their Wards 186 María de la Luz Ibarra Part 4. Grassroots organizing and resistance 11. Immigrant Women Workers at the Center of Social Change: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates 207 Jennifer Jihye Chun, George Lipsitz, and Young Shin 12. Transfronteriza: Gender Rights at the Border and La Colectiva Feminista Binacional 232 Michelle Téllez 13. Formalizing the Informal: Highly Skilled Filipina Caregivers and the Pilipino Workers Center 247 Anna Romina Guevarra and Lolita Andrada Lledo 14. FLOResiste: Transnational Labor, Motherhood, and Activism 262 Nilda Flores-González and Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz Afterword by Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán 277 List of Contributors 279 Index 287 ...