- Description
- 1 online resource.
- Summary
- "This book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complex ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the "ethnic cage" to explain both the promise and pain of community"--
- Uniform Title
- Fruteros (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Fruteros (Online)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Becoming a Frutero -- Managing risk on the street -- Personal and professional entanglements -- Ethnic ties in crisis -- Dos Mundos transformed -- Conclusion
- LCCN
- 2019052051
- OCLC
- ssj0002279341
- Author
Rosales, Rocío, 1983-
- Title
Fruteros [electronic resource] : street vending, illegality, and ethnic community in Los Angeles / Rocío Rosales.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2020.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Connect to:
- Other Form:
Print version: Rosales, Rocío, 1983- Fruteros Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2020. 9780520319844 (DLC) 2019052050