In the 1990s, many middle-class Latin American professional men and women left their countries because of political or economic problems and emigrated to Miami, Florida in search of better prospects. This article examines social class identity in the context of immigration. My study builds on the early work of class identity theorists and analyzes how perceptions of class change when people move from one country to another. In that context, I examine the impact of cultural and social capital in (re) shaping immigrants class-based perceptions and their contribution to their ability to adjust to a new life in the United States. © 2012 Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

South Florida social and cultural capital class identity Social class Latin Americans

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