{"product_id":"survival-of-the-knitted-vilna-francine-bashi-treitler-9780804740906","title":"Survival of the Knitted: Immigrant Social Networks in a Stratified World","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrough this ethnography of West Indian social networks in New York, London, and the West Indies, Vilna Bashi shows how migrant life is patterned, structured, and regulated to provide critical financial and emotional support. She develops an important new general model of transnational immigrant network organization, the \"hub and spoke\" model, in which select veteran migrants (hubs) act as migration experts and send repeatedly for newcomers (spokes). \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurvival of the Knitted\u003c\/i\u003e details the ongoing importance of networks throughout the resettlement process. Network hubs use their connections and reputations to find jobs for immigrants and to influence their housing choices. They shape the migrants' experience of racial hierarchies and social stratification in a new country. As Bashi expertly shows, geographic mobility is a vehicle for socioeconomic and cultural mobility, but in ways more complex and network-dependent than the standard migration story would tell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vilna Francine Bashi Treitler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804740909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804740906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.32w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2007 pg. 73","brand":"Vilna Francine Bashi Treitler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120256119039,"sku":"9780804740906","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9ac6a04-382c-47d8-a250-53c024fe8aab.jpg?v=1687413332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/survival-of-the-knitted-vilna-francine-bashi-treitler-9780804740906","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}