Making Los Angeles Home

Rafael Alarcon has a PhD in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley and is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Luis Escala has a PhD in sociology from UCLA and is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Olga Odgers has a PhD in sociology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales-Paris and is a professor and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Dick Cluster is a writer and translator in Oakland, California, and the former Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

• Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. Theoretical, Historical, and Statistical Aspects of Mexican Immigrant Integration in Metropolitan Los Angeles1. Theoretical Perspectives on Immigrant Integration 2. Mexican Immigration and the Development of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area 3. Statistical Analysis of Mexican Immigrants’ Integration in the Metropolitan Los Angeles Area PART TWO. Dimensions of Integration among Immigrants from Zacatecas, Oaxaca, and Veracruz4. Economic Integration: Mobility, Labor Niches, and Low-End Jobs 5. Social Integration: Building a Family, a Community, and a Life 6. Cultural Integration: Redefining Identities in a Diverse Metropolis 7. Political Integration: From Life in the Margins to the Pursuit of Recognition PART THREE. Government Intervention and the Immigrant Population8. Public Policies and Mexican Immigrant Integration in the City and County of Los Angeles Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index