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Publications [#255398] of Linda Burton

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  1. Welsh, W; Burton, LM, Home and heart: Housing and relationship power among low-income mothers (2012)
    (last updated on 2020/03/04)

    Abstract:
    Using longitudinal ethnographic data from the Three-City Study, we explored the interplay of housing dependency and relationship power for a subsample (N=29) of low-income mothers of Mexican descent residing in San Antonio and Chicago. Guided by a social exchange perspective, we examined the factors that differentially constrained and channeled mothers� housing options, and how housing, as a resource, impacted mothers� power in their romantic unions. We identified several differences between Mexican immigrants and native-born Mexican Americans, both in terms of housing dependency and relationship power. In general, mothers� control of housing corresponded to increased relationship power.


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