Lissette Aliaga Linares
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Aliaga-Linares’s research focuses on urban poverty, segregation, migration, and informal economies in Latin America and the U.S. She has studied street vending in cities like Bogotá, Lima, and Santiago de Chile and worked with grassroots groups supporting day laborers and immigrant communities in the United States. She was a community-based researcher for NGO Alternativa in Lima and has collaborated with WIEGO, UN ECLAC, and ILO. In Texas, she aided the Workers Defense Project’s anti-solicitation campaign and contributed to legislative research on informal housing on the U.S.-Mexico border. In Nebraska, she has authored policy reports on socioeconomic trends among Latino immigrants.
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Contrasts the history of street-based farmer's market vendors in Chile with the efforts of other countries to move vendors to off-street venues.
Argues that the incorporation of the informal economy framework into local governments’ policymaking has reframed street trade as a subject of policy. Traces a shift from worker-centered initiatives,through the deregulation of street trade, to entrepreneurial-centered approaches.
Describes the evolution of street vending in these areas, including the move from open-air to roofed markets, and the evictions and marginalization that can occur in these processes.
Analyzes the demographic growth of Latinos in Nebraska, and the impact of the Great Recession on their economic stability and well-being.
Traces the specific nature of the growth of Latino businesses in Nebraska.