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Introduction : immigrant women and labor disruptions / Maura Toro-Morn, Anna Romina Guevarra, and Nilda Flores-González -- Critique of the neoliberal state. Street vendors claiming respect and dignity in the neoliberal city / M. Victoria Quiroz-Becerra ; Elvira Arellano and the struggles of low-wage undocumented Latina immigrant women / Maura Toro-Morn ; This is what trafficking looks like / Grace Chang -- Ethnic enclaves. Gendered labor : experiences of Nepali women withing pan-ethnic informal labor markets in Boston and New York / Shobha Hamal Gurung and Bandana Purkayastha ; Paradoxes of patriarchy : contradicting experiences of South Asian women in ethnic labor markets / Pallavi Banerjee ; Changing expectations : economic downturns and immigrant Chinese women in New York City / Margaret M. Chin -- Informal economies. From street child care to drive-throughs : Latinas reconfigure and negotiate street vending spaces in Los Angeles / Lorena Muñoz ; Living the third shift / Latina adolescent street vendors in Los Angeles / Emir Estrada and Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo ; Reinventing dirts work : immigrant women in nursing homes / Lucy T. Fisher and Miliann Kang ; Extending kinship : Mexicana elder care providers and their wards / María de la Luz Ibarra -- Grassroots organizing and resistance. Immigrant women workers at the center of social change : Asian immigrant women advocates / Jennifer Jihye Chun, George Lipsitz, and Young Shin ; Transfronteriza : gender rights at the border and La Colectiva Feminista Binacional / Michelle Téllez ; Formalizing the informal : highly skilled Filipina caregivers and the Pilipino Workers Center / Anna Romina Guevarra and Lolita Andrada Lledo ; FLOResiste : transnational labor, motherhood, and activism / Nilda Flores-González and Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz -- Afterword / by Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán. |
