Citation

Cleaveland CL. J. Hum. Behav. Soc. Environ. 2013; 23(1): 1-13.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/10911359.2012.737288

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This qualitative study examines the lived experiences of Latina immigrants who settled in an area that enacted one of the United State's most draconian anti-immigrant initiatives--a law that would be a precursor for Arizona's SB 1070. Though this investigation was prompted by the law's adoption in 2007, interviews and 18 months of ethnographic observation with Latina immigrants (n = 16) found that it was only one in a patchwork of forces constricting work opportunity and threatening access to housing and food. Using critical phenomenology, I examine women's experiences of poverty both prior to immigration, and in the U.S. economy.