Compadrazgo networks and immigrant adaptation in a Nevada town

Abstract

In the case of migration to new destinations where the immigration stream from a particular locale is of little historical depth, it can be asked what people make up ego's adaptation network. It is argued here that networks of reciprocal exchange fortified by the creation of compadrazgo relationships (ritual kinship ties) provide the new immigrant with economic and affective benefits.

Citation

Wilson, T.D. (2010), "Compadrazgo networks and immigrant adaptation in a Nevada town", Wood, D.C. (Ed.) Economic Action in Theory and Practice: Anthropological Investigations (Research in Economic Anthropology, Vol. 30), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 99-109. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-1281(2010)0000030008