EAN: 9783030088415

NEIGHBORHOOD POVERTY AND SEGREGATION IN THE (RE...

Focusing on shopkeepers in Latino a neighborhoods in Los Angeles  Dolores Trevizo and Mary
Lopez reveal how neighborhood poverty affects the business performance of Mexican immigrant
entrepreneurs. Their survey of shopkeepers in twenty immigrant neighborhoods demonstrates that
even slightly less impoverished  multiethnic communities offer better business opportunities
than do the highly impoverished  racially segregated Mexican neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
Their findings reveal previously overlooked aspects of microclass  as well as legal capital
advantages. The authors argue that even poor Mexican immigrants whose class backgrounds in
Mexico imparted an entrepreneurial disposition can achieve a modicum of business success in the
right (U.S.) neighborhood context  and the more quickly they build legal capital  the better
their outcomes. While the authors show that the local place characteristics of neighborhoods
both reflect and reproduce class and racial inequalities  they also demonstrate that the
diversity of experience among Mexican immigrants living within the spatial boundaries of these
communities can contribute to economic mobility.

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