Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Haitian Informal Sector in Miami

The Haitian Informal Sector in Miami The nature of immigration policy toward Haitians in southern Florida is largely responsible for the nature of their participation in the labor market. As individuals with an ambiguous status in the United States they are forced to work for low wages on the fringes of the formal sector of the economy or in Miami's growing informal sector. Most notably an example of generative economic activity is the growth of Little Haiti in Miami and the support it provides its residents. (Haitians, boat people, informal economy) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

The Haitian Informal Sector in Miami

Stepick, Alex
City & Society , Volume 5 (1) – Jun 1, 1991
Download PDF
13 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/the-haitian-informal-sector-in-miami-Xssmk1GD5i
Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0893-0465
eISSN
1548-744X
DOI
10.1525/city.1991.5.1.10
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The nature of immigration policy toward Haitians in southern Florida is largely responsible for the nature of their participation in the labor market. As individuals with an ambiguous status in the United States they are forced to work for low wages on the fringes of the formal sector of the economy or in Miami's growing informal sector. Most notably an example of generative economic activity is the growth of Little Haiti in Miami and the support it provides its residents. (Haitians, boat people, informal economy)

Journal

City & Society – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 1991

References

  • Human Rights, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Haitian Refugees
    Loescher, Loescher; Scanlan, Scanlan
  • Immigrant Economic Adjustment and Family Organization: The Cuban Success Story Reexamined
    Perez, Perez
  • Making It Underground: Comparative Material on the Informal Sector in Western Market Economies
    Portes, Portes; Sassen‐Koob, Sassen‐Koob
  • Haitian Boat People: A Study in the Conflicting Forces Shaping U.S. Refugee Policy
    Stepick, Stepick
  • Flight into Despair: A Profile of Recent Haitian Refugees in South Florida
    Stepick, Stepick; Portes, Portes
  • A Homegrown Mass Transit System in Lima, Peru: A Case of Generative Planning
    Uzzell, Uzzell
  • Dissonance of Formal and Informal Planning Styles, or Can Formal Planners Do Bricolage?
    Uzzell, Uzzell
  • The Haitians versus the United States: The Courts as Last Resort
    Zucker, Zucker