Racial geographies and the challenges of day labor formalization: a case study from San Diego County
Racial geographies and the challenges of day labor formalization: a case study from San Diego County
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种族地理和日工正规化的挑战：圣地亚哥县的案例研究
DOI：
10.1080/08873630802433830
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
F. Bosco
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文献类型：
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作者：
Sean M. Crotty;F. Bosco
最近围绕美国移民问题的辩论重新引起了人们对日工的关注。在寻找工作的过程中，临时工暂时占据公共和准公共空间。日工的可见性和日工招聘网站的出现提出了关于公共空间及其“适当”使用的新问题。建立一个新的日工招聘网站往往会造成地点冲突。为日工聚集创造正式的空间是目前控制日工和消除社区冲突的“最佳解决方案”，这些冲突往往围绕着非正式的日工招聘网站。本文以圣地亚哥县一个正式的日工中心的民族志研究项目为基础，展示了正规化努力的有效性如何高度依赖于社区中日工的特定地理位置。我们的总体论点是，种族类别和种族化的过程是日工地理的一部分，影响正式的日工网站的有效性。此外，有人认为，种族化的过程往往促进冲突和/或日工之间的合作和日工与雇主。
Recent debates surrounding immigration in the United States have brought renewed attention to day laborers. In their search for employment, day laborers temporarily occupy public and quasi-public spaces. The visibility of day labor and the appearance of day labor hiring sites raise new questions about public space and its ‘proper’ use. The establishment of a new day labor hiring site often creates a locational conflict. Creating formal spaces for day labor congregation is the current ‘best-solution’ for controlling day labor and eliminating community conflict that often surrounds informal day labor hiring sites. Drawing on an ethnographic research project at a formal day workers’ center in San Diego County, the paper shows how the effectiveness of formalization efforts is highly dependent on the particular geographies of day labor in a neighborhood. Our overall argument is that racial categories and processes of racialization that are part of the geographies of day labor impact the effectiveness of formal day labor sites. Moreover, it is argued that processes of racialization often work to promote conflict and/or cooperation among day laborers themselves and between day laborers and employers.