Stagnant immigrant social networks and cycles of exploitation
Stagnant immigrant social networks and cycles of exploitation
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停滞的移民社交网络和剥削循环
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2014
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Rocío Rosales
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Rocío Rosales
基于对洛杉矶街头小贩四年多的民族志研究，以及对居住在墨西哥的小贩和前小贩的家庭成员的采访，本文探讨了一个发送社区及其社交网络对美国移民结果的影响。这些社交网络影响了移徙模式，使人们更容易进入水果贩卖行业，但也为剥削提供了便利。此外，这些社交网络并不总是作为有效的信息渠道，因为其成员由于感到羞耻或尴尬，往往无法增加现有的知识。因此，国际移徙模式、工作安排和剥削做法对后来的移徙者来说并没有改变或改善。这就形成了一个循环，在这个循环中，社交网络变得停滞不前，并逐渐无法以平等和整体帮助网络成员的方式作为信息和资源的有效渠道。
Based on over four years of ethnographic research among street vendors in Los Angeles and on interviews with family members of vendors and former vendors living in Mexico, this article examines the influence of a sending community and its social networks on migrant outcomes in the USA. These social networks affect migration patterns, ease entry into the fruit-vending business but also facilitate exploitation. Furthermore, these social networks do not always function as effective conduits of information because its members, due to feelings of shame or embarrassment, often fail to add to the existing body of knowledge. As a result, international migration patterns, job placement and exploitative practices do not change or improve for subsequent migrants. This creates a cycle in which social networks become stagnant and successively fail to function as effective conduits of information and resources in ways that might help network members equally and in the aggregate.