Drawing on surveys and indepth interviews this book examines the socialand economic relations of firstgeneration Latino entrepreneurs. Verdaguerexplores social ... » 

Drawing on surveys and indepth interviews this book examines the socialand economic relations of firstgeneration Latino entrepreneurs. Verdaguerexplores social patterns between and within groups situating immigrantentrepreneurship within concrete geographical demographic and historicalspaces. Her study not only reveals that Latinos strategies for access tobusiness ownership and for business development are cut across class ethnicand gender lines but also that immigrants options practices and socialspaces remain largely shaped by patriarchal gender relations within theimmigrant family community and economy. This book is a necessary addition tothe literature on immigration class gender relations and theintersectionality of these issues. «