The mobility of workers under advanced capitalism: Dominican migration to the United States

The great exodus: its roots

Economic growth and surplus population The perception of a migratory movement

Dominicans in the labor market

On the international mobility of labor

Conclusion: assessing the present and auguring. Leaving the land of the few

The great exodus: Its Roots

Explaining Dominican migration

The middle class and the urban background: Deconstruction of a false identity

The mking of a mgratory movement: An alternative reading

The United States, the rise of balaguer, and the circulation of capital and workers

The politics of stability: family planning and emigration

Economic growth and surplus population

The road to modernization: Import substitution

The cattle-agricultural sector

Urban centers and the mobility of surplus labor

Economic rearticulation in search of accumulation

The reproduction of labor power and surplus labor: The antecedent to emigration

Economic accumulation and crisis

Public spending

A general assessment of Migrants and Migration from the Dominican Republic 84PART 2. Settling in the Land of Dreams 87 3. The Perception of a migratory movement

Hard work, high poverty: life in the metropolis

The head of the household: A woman's story

The Washington Heights Dominican community: The construction of an image the untold story: The other face of a community

Marginalization and poverty among Dominicans: An assessment

Dominicans in the labor market

Dominicans as workers in New York City

The larger economic picture

The restructuring of the economy : A theory of job creation

Industrial distribution of Dominican labor force

Occupational distribution

earnings

Labor force participation rates and unemployment

Explaining labor market differentiations

Poor labor market outcomes among Dominicans : Current explanations

Toward an alternative explanation concerning labor market outcomes among Dominicans

The limits of demand

On the international mobility of labor

Labor mobility and Demand 152 Migration and Declining Labor Demand at the Core 154 Looking for More Than Just Human capital qualities

In sum, the restructuring of the economy: No need for extra hands

Contesting and controlling mass immigration in the land of Ooportunities

Surplus here, surplus there, surplus everywhere: Displaced workers and the state

Conclusion: Assessing the present and auguring the future

The United States

The Dominican Republic

The Dominican people

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