American Dreaming:
Immigrant Life on the Margins
Sarah J. Mahler

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	List of Illustrations
	List of Maps and Tables
	Acknowledgments
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Leaving Home	31
Ch. 3	The Trip as Personal Transformation	58
Ch. 4	Great Expectations, Early Disillusionments	83
Ch. 5	The Construction of Marginality	105
Ch. 6	Making Money off the Margins	138
Ch. 7	Lucrative, Liminal Law	159
Ch. 8	The Encargado Industry	188
Ch. 9	Immigrants and the American Dream	214
	Notes	235
	Bibliography	243
	Index	255

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