The plight of the urban poor in Mexico has changed little since World War II, despite the
country's impressive rate of economic growth. Susan Eckstein considers how market forces and …

Who in America volunteers what and why? And what impact does volunteering have? It is
widely believed that the typical volunteer is middle-aged and middle-class and that …

" A wonderful starting point for studying social movements in contemporary Latin America
and for analyzing how unique processes of dependent capitalist development, and attendant …

Are all immigrants from the same home country best understood as a homogeneous group
of foreign-born? Or do they differ in their adaptation and transnational ties depending on …

In Latin America, shantytowns and squatter settlements were portrayed as “slums of hope”
and inner-city areas as “slums of despair” in the 1960s and 1970s. It is argued in this article …

The two paradigms for analyzing immigrant experiences, “assimilationist” and “transnationalist,”
leave unanalyzed important differences in immigrant adaptation rooted in different …

This book has long been regarded as the definitive history of Castro's communist regime,
beginning in 1959 through the 1990s. This updated, second edition contains a new epilogue …

Why do city-dwellers take to the streets and not to ballot boxes to express dissatisfaction with
government policies under democratic as well as authoritarian governments? Why do the …

This is a collection of original essays focusing on social rights in Latin America, covering
four areas in particular: subsistence, labor, gender, and race/ethnicity within the original …

HE migrants ESSAYS IN focus this volume on two on central second-generation issues:
whether post-1965 immigrants imand their children have different assimilation experiences and …