Silvia Domínguez

Examines racial microaggressions from a sociological point of view promises additional insight to help understand the complexities of contemporary race and racism in America and abroad.

Discusses how Latin American mothers utilize transnational ties to help maintain the cultural identities of themselves and their children, to alleviate social isolation, and to provide a safer summer housing alternative for their children. Transnational ties may have had some negative consequences, including financial and social burdens associated with maintaining long-distance familial relationships. 

Finds that any qualitative data on low-income populations suffer from structural, interpersonal, and symbolic forms of violence. In this case, we looked at low-income minority-status women gathered ethnographically in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Los Angeles, and New York through the Three City Study of Moving to Opportunity

Presents evidence about mixing methods research using social networks.

The results of a three-year comparative ethnography of Latin American immigrants in public housing in South and East Boston. While the majority of the immigrant women were getting ahead through their own agency and social networks, violence kept the others stagnated. Two interdisciplinary frameworks are presented.     

Describes capacity-building interventions based on social capital, including empowerment, community youth development and collective efficacy models, which can work at the individual and community level in preventive and treatment-based interventions.

Pays attention to how respondents generate social capital to obtain resources for survival and social mobility. Physical proximity, reciprocity, and family tensions keep women from relying on family. Also, finds that women generate social support through friendships and non-profit institutions. Social support networks can inhibit social mobility by enforcing time-consuming and professionally limiting expectations on women.