Social Reproduction and Urban Competitiveness: How Dominican Bodegueros Use the Care Economy

摘要: Drawn from a larger project examining immigration and economic redevelopment in Philadelphia, this article examines the way bodegas (small neighborhood-based variety stores) challenge relations of competitiveness inherent neoliberal urban development. I argue that while rhetoric competition entrepreneurialism abound discussions development, ethnographic research neighborhoods suggest caring labor social reproduction also plays strong role how immigrant communities establish themselves develop. use experience bodegueros to demonstrate care operates support families, businesses, within competitive, city. work is often juxtaposed with neoliberalism, reality false dichotomy. Urban neoliberalism undergirded labor, it central institutionalization as helps sustain supports upward mobility families who bodegas.