Miami is a paradise. Miami is home. I hate Miami: Cultural Capital and Habitus of Three Cuban-El Salvadoran Second-Generation Sisters Carving Out Their Lives in Their Native City
Abstract
Thesis directed by O. Hugo Benavides, Ph.D. This thesis is the result of two months of ethnographic research on a Cuban family in Little Havana. My research focuses primarily on the second-generation children of the household: Layla and Maya, 25 year old twins, and Gala, 20. I argue that the women's habitus, influenced by larger socio-economic cultural forces, plays an important role in their current economic situation. I also argue that cultural capital is used as a tool of exclusion towards the youngest sibling in regionally specific ways to mark a class difference between the sisters. The aim of this paper is to shed light on and contribute to the existing knowledge of the experiences of second-generation immigrants in the city of Miami.
Subject Area
Ethnic studies
Recommended Citation
Mijares, Bianca, "Miami is a paradise. Miami is home. I hate Miami: Cultural Capital and Habitus of Three Cuban-El Salvadoran Second-Generation Sisters Carving Out Their Lives in Their Native City" (2014). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI1561150.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI1561150
