Parking lots and police: Undocumented Latinos' tactics for finding day labor jobs

Ethnography

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 515-533

  Cleaveland, Carol ^a   Pierson, Leo ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Day labor; Latinos; Migrants; Prejudice; Resistance; Social space; Undocumented immigrants

Indexed keywords

EID: 70450084439     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138109346987     Document Type: Article

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