Javier Auyero is Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao. He is the author of
Explicating Subsistence at the Margins Available to Purchase
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Published:February 2025
Chapter 1 provides an overview of the literature on survival strategies across the Americas and delineates the object of the book’s main inquiry. We start with a detailed review of three classic works on the topic (Lomnitz, Stack, and Menjívar) and then move to thoroughly examine current scholarship. This review inspires and illuminates our empirical analysis.
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