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This thesis explores the economic, social, and cultural roles of Latino immigrant-owned restaurants in Somerville, Massachusetts. The narrative privileges the voices of Latino immigrant entrepreneurs and constructs a contemporary history of Somerville as an immigrant city. Using economic anthropological theories of the "embeddedness" of economy within social and cultural settings, I posit that ... read morethese restaurants serve as multifaceted institutions of economic incorporation, promoters of multiple cultural identities, and centers of geographical and virtual communities. In addition, Somerville's Latino immigrant-owned restaurants exist within a system of neighborhoods changing due to gentrification, transportation, and demographic changes that influences their capacities for growth, change, and survival.read less
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