From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders: Migrating Women, Class, and Color

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Norma Fuentes-Mayorga

From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders

Migrating Women, Class, and Color

Norma Fuentes-Mayorga

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Rutgers University Press
12 May 2023

History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Society & culture: general; Migration, immigration & emigration; Local history

In From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City, a traditional destination for Dominicans but a relatively new one for Mexicans. Her book documents the significance of women-led migration within an increasingly racialized context and underscores the contributions women make to their communities of origin and of settlement. Fuentes-Mayorga's research is timely, especially against the backdrop of policy debates about the future of family reunification laws and the unprecedented immigration of women and minors from Latin America, many of whom seek human rights protection or to reunite with families in the US. From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders provides a compelling look at the suffering of migrant mothers and the mourning of family separation, but also at the agency and contributions that women make with their imported human capital and remittances to the receiving and sending community. Ultimately the book contributes further understanding to the heterogeneity of Latin American immigration and highlights the social mobility of Afro-Caribbean and indigenous migrant women in New York.

By: Norma Fuentes-Mayorga
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 50g
ISBN: 9781978822122
ISBN 10: 197882212X
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 12 May 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue 1 Introduction 2 The Migration of Women and Race: A Typology 3 The New Spaces and Faces of Immigrant Neighborhoods in New York City 4 “Unos Duermen de Noche y Otros de Día”: The Living Arrangements of Undocumented Families 5 An Intersectional View at Social Mobility, Race, and Migration 6 “¡Y Ellos Pensaban que Yo Era Blanca!” Racial Capital and Ambiguous Identities Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index

NORMA FUENTES-MAYORGA is an associate professor in the department of sociology and the Latin American and Latina/o Studies Program at the City College of New York. Before joining City College, she was a visiting fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Migration and Development (CMD) and an assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University.

Reviews for From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders: Migrating Women, Class, and Color

"""Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding."" — Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University ""This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market.""— Nancy López, co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press) ""Norma Fuentes's new book draws on many years of fieldwork and contributes important insights on Dominican and Mexican women’s lives and life chances in New York. Focusing on these increasingly female migration flows, particularly interesting is that Fuentes notes how their lives and welfare are affected by their phenotype and how they fit into local racial hierarchies."" — Robert Smith, author of Mexican New York: Transnational Worlds of New Immigrants ""This book is a powerful analysis of immigrant women's experience of oppression and resistance. The author interrogates how color, class, and gender matter when investigating the contours and margins of Latinidad against the backdrop of structural changes in the labor market.""— Nancy López, co-editor of Mapping Race (Rutgers University Press) “Like the best ethnographies, this is a wonderful read, but also deeply informative. The scholarship is outstanding.”— Miguel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology, Princeton University"