... observation. The framework used here is called the “Social Flow,” a network-based model that incorporates culture, structure, and individual agency in determining the social mobility of Latin American immigrant women. Allende Salvador Refugee Act of 1980 African Americans fictive kin family Jesuit...

... populations, which are defined as not having an adequate level of self-propelling agents (SPAs) to offer social modeling. Their stories can teach us much about how low-income individuals navigate their environments, which are known to be full of constraints, to become socially mobile. education New England...

... of the Social Flow and are a vital component of the Social Flow framework; they contribute to the configuration of networks, self-propelling agency, social modeling, and frames, thus producing sufficient conditions for social mobility. As seen in this book, the majority of the immigrant women studied were...

... were using gambling to try to rationalize larger paradoxes in cultural theories of race and economic mobility by reframing immigration and social mobility as a risk-taking opportunity. Gambling served an ideational narrative function that is made clear through its representations in both literary...

... rural migrants, that hostessing is the best option for social mobility. abandonment brothels education gender innocence karaoke labor love music rape risks unskilled work abolitionist anti trafficking blue collar China choice dance deviance globalization markets massage parlors...

... peasant Kazemi Farhad ba kelas moral code peasant dehati social mobility status recognition women birth rates cultural norms Iran Iraq War marriage daheh ye shasti youth dispossessed mostaz‘afin mostaz‘afin dispossessed unemployment welfare reform Abrahamian Ervand agriculture economy...

... was the keystone of a cultural politics of embodiment, a politics that played a critical role in determining—and contesting—the social mobility, political authority, and cultural meaning of the raced and gendered body....

... still open to our class of young people with the body of research on the lack of social mobility in Western societies that suggests a more pessimistic future for many of them. cultural capital learner identity life trajectories social mobility and cultural capital options process of school project...

... social position that would lead to social mobility, but social support is necessary to take advantage of opportunities that leveraging ties might bring. The chapter illustrates how difficult it is for women who lack support to maximize their leveraging ties and exposes the difficulties inherent...

... advantage of the opportunities opened by these ties. These women belong to the same community as the others mentioned in this book, but structural, gender-based violence and untreated trauma have hampered their frames and prevented their social mobility, despite the fact that they are socially positioned...

... to justify that struggle; networks that provide support and leverage that socially position SPAs for social mobility; bridges that cross race and class divisions as well as other interventions that open up educational and employment opportunities for meeting identified needs in that population; and efficient...

... to social mobility. The framework is also applied to domestic and international migration and demonstrates how Social Flow captures key aspects of the social world, including the balance of efficiency and inefficiency within and across borders, and the incorporation of immigrants in receiving countries...

... health workers’ monthly income fluctuates because of the precarity of their work schedules. bitterness health home care workers nursing homes reciprocity home care house state retirement Social Security wages transnationalism home ownership mortgages retirement transnationalism social...

... voices of these women demonstrate how they successfully negotiate the world and achieve social mobility through their own individual agency, skillfully navigating both constraints and opportunities. The book makes it clear that many immigrant women are able to develop the social support needed for a rich...