Generative themes : freirean pedagogy and the politics of social research -- Desperate responsibility -- Fighting for the job -- Risk on all sides, eyes wide open -- Visions of community at worker centers: from protected workforce to convivial politics -- Organizing the fight against precarity

Numerous studies find that U.S.-born Hispanics differ significantly from non-Hispanic whites on important measures of human capital, including health. Nevertheless, almost all studies rely on subjective measures of ethnic self-identification to identify immigrants' U.S.-born descendants. This...

Introduction: border securities, migrant labor, and crisis capitalism -- Border securities and unsecure labor -- Migrant domestics and gendered work in crisis capitalism -- Border futures -- Epilogue: beyond security

Using the 2007 Encuesta Nacional de Immigración (ENI), we find that male migrants follow a similar labor and legal assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians faring worse in terms of legal status but better in terms of employment status at arrival). Among...