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"With an ethnographer's ear and a social critic's lens, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas illuminates the care deficit of the immigrant second generation, the children o

Exploring the growing global trend of solo living, this highly original study addresses core debates about contemporary social change in the context of globaliz

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