The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism

Dominican Migration to the United States

By: Ramona Hernandez

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Hardcover | 6 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies? Why do workers move from one region to another? Theoretically, the supply of workers in a given region and the demand for them in another account for the international mobility of laborers. Job seekers from less developed regions migrate to more advanced countries where technological and productive transformations have produced a shortage of laborers. Using the Dominican labor force in New York as a case study, Ramona HernAndez challenges this presumption of a straightforward relationship between supply and demand in the job markets of the receiving society. She contends that the traditional correlation between migration and economic progress does not always hold true. Once transplanted in New York City, HernAndez shows, Dominicans have faced economic hardship as the result of high levels of unemployment and underemployment and the reality of a changing labor market that increasingly requires workers with skills and training they do not have. Rather than responding to a demand in the labor market, emigration from the Dominican Republic was the result of a de facto government policy encouraging poor and jobless people to leave -- a policy in which the United States was an accomplice because the policy suited its economic and political interests in the region.

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"Ramona Hernandez utilizes a keen understanding of politics in the Dominican Republic and the United States to show how the two spheres are impacted by Dominican migration. Her work has important theoretical and policy implications for understanding unfolding local developments related to globalization. This is a timely and significant work." - James Jennings, Tufts University

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List of Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
The Mobility of Labor in Response to Demand	p. 1
An Alternative Reading of Labor Mobility	p. 5
The Changing Economy: No Need for Extra Hands	p. 6
Emigration as an Expulsion of Workers	p. 8
Life in the Metropolis	p. 13
Leaving the Land of the Few	p. 19
The Great Exodus: Its Roots	p. 21
Explaining Dominican Migration	p. 23
The Middle Class and the Urban Background: Deconstruction of a False Identity	p. 26
The Making of a Migratory Movement: An Alternative Reading	p. 33
The United States, the Rise of Balaguer, and the Circulation of Capital and Workers	p. 34
The Politics of Stability: Family Planning and Emigration	p. 39
Economic Growth and Surplus Population	p. 51
The Road to Modernization: Import Substitution	p. 52
The Cattle-Agricultural Sector	p. 56
Urban Centers and the Mobility of Surplus Labor	p. 60
Economic Rearticulation in Search of Accumulation	p. 63
The Reproduction of Labor Power and Surplus Labor: The Antecedent to Emigration	p. 69
Economic Accumulation and Crisis	p. 72
Public Spending	p. 82
A General Assessment of Migrants and Migration from the Dominican Republic	p. 84
Settling in the Land of Dreams	p. 87
The Perception of a Migratory Movement	p. 89
Hard Work, High Poverty: Life in the Metropolis	p. 97
The Head of the Household: A Woman's Story	p. 103
The Washington Heights Dominican Community: The Construction of an Image	p. 108
The Untold Story: The Other Face of a Community	p. 112
Marginalization and Poverty Among Dominicans: An Assessment	p. 117
Dominicans in the Labor Market	p. 120
Dominicans as Workers in New York City	p. 121
The Larger Economic Picture	p. 122
The Restructuring of the Economy: A Theory of Job Creation	p. 124
Industrial Distribution of Dominican Labor Force	p. 127
Occupational Distribution	p. 130
Earnings	p. 131
Labor Force Participation Rates and Unemployment	p. 133
Explaining Labor Market Differentiations	p. 136
Poor Labor Market Outcomes Among Dominicans: Current Explanations	p. 138
Toward an Alternative Explanation Concerning Labor Market Outcomes Among Dominicans	p. 142
The Limits of Demand	p. 144
On the International Mobility of Labor	p. 149
Labor Mobility and Demand	p. 152
Migration and Declining Labor Demand at the Core	p. 154
Looking for More Than Just Human Capital Qualities	p. 161
In Sum, the Restructuring of the Economy: No Need For Extra Hands	p. 164
Contesting and Controlling Mass Immigration in the land of Opportunities	p. 168
Surplus Here, Surplus There, Surplus Everywhere: Displaced Workers and the State	p. 171
Conclusion: Assessing the Present and Auguring the Future	p. 177
The United States	p. 177
The Dominican Republic	p. 178
The Dominican People	p. 181
Figures	p. 185
Notes	p. 197
Works Cited	p. 205
Index	p. 217
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