Anthropologist’s Five Books on Migrant Workers

Anthropologist Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz identifies five us about books that give voice to low-wage migrant workers and explains the mutual dependence of slums and “urban glamour zones”:

The Mobility of Labor and Capital By Saskia Sassen

For We Are Sold, I and My People By María Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Coyotes By Ted Conover

Shadowed Lives By Leo R. Chavez

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists By Christian Zlolniski

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