About the Book
Rocío Rosales is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.
Fruteros
Street Vending
by Rocío Rosales (Author)
Price: $29.95 / £25.00
Publication Date: May 2020
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780520974166
Trim Size: 6 x 9
About the Author
and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles
Table of Contents
“This stellar work artfully details the complex lives of immigrants who make a living selling fruit on the streets of Los Angeles. Drawing from six years of ethnographic research, Rocío Rosales offers an innovative theoretical tool—the ethnic cage—to explain how constant crackdowns on immigrant street vendors enhance their vulnerability as well as their willingness to exploit their compatriots.”—Tanya Golash-Boza, author of Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism
“This important ethnography is a critical contribution to our understanding of migrant networks and labor precarity.”—Shannon Gleeson, Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law and History, Cornell University
“Rosales shows us the microcosm of everyday life within which co-ethnics interact with, coexist with, compete with, and disappoint one another. Fruteros is theoretically rich and thoroughly engaging—ethnography at its best.”—Cecilia Menjívar, Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
“This important ethnography is a critical contribution to our understanding of migrant networks and labor precarity.”—Shannon Gleeson, Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law and History, Cornell University
“Rosales shows us the microcosm of everyday life within which co-ethnics interact with, coexist with, compete with, and disappoint one another. Fruteros is theoretically rich and thoroughly engaging—ethnography at its best.”—Cecilia Menjívar, Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Reviews
— Ethnic and Racial Studies"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles."
— American Journal of Sociology"Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study."
“This stellar work artfully details the complex lives of immigrants who make a living selling fruit on the streets of Los Angeles. Drawing from six years of ethnographic research, Rocío Rosales offers an innovative theoretical tool—the ethnic cage—to explain how constant crackdowns on immigrant street vendors enhance their vulnerability as well as their willingness to exploit their compatriots.”—Tanya Golash-Boza, author of Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism
“This important ethnography is a critical contribution to our understanding of migrant networks and labor precarity.”—Shannon Gleeson, Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law and History, Cornell University
“Rosales shows us the microcosm of everyday life within which co-ethnics interact with, coexist with, compete with, and disappoint one another. Fruteros is theoretically rich and thoroughly engaging—ethnography at its best.”—Cecilia Menjívar, Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
“This important ethnography is a critical contribution to our understanding of migrant networks and labor precarity.”—Shannon Gleeson, Associate Professor of Labor Relations, Law and History, Cornell University
“Rosales shows us the microcosm of everyday life within which co-ethnics interact with, coexist with, compete with, and disappoint one another. Fruteros is theoretically rich and thoroughly engaging—ethnography at its best.”—Cecilia Menjívar, Dorothy L. Meier Chair in Social Equities and Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Awards
- Latina/o Section Distinguished Book Award 2021, American Sociological Association Latina/o Sociology Section