@article{ref1,
title=""Show them how they treat us": legal violence in the everyday lives of street vendors",
journal="Latino studies",
year="2022",
author="Hidalgo, Leigh-Anna",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Since the 1930s, street vending in Los Angeles has been classified as a misdemeanor, punishable by jail time and fines. The Los Angeles Street Vendor Campaign (LASVC)-a coalition of Brown and Black street vendors and social justice organizations-succeeded in decriminalizing street vending. Drawing on data collected from 2013 to 2020 and utilizing ethnographic and digital humanities methods, this paper spotlights fifteen Black and Brown street-vendor leaders of the LASVC. Combined street-vendor leader narratives reveal how laws and enforcement practices undermined their ability to stay free, remain housed, and keep families and vending communities together. This paper differentiates between state-sanctioned legal violence, which led to dispossession and family separation, and community-sanctioned legal violence to demonstrate how laws that criminalize street vendors make them targets for other forms of violence, namely surveillance by co-ethnics. Legal violence often occurs simultaneously and cumulatively adds extra levels of precarity for street vendors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1476-3435",
doi="10.1057/s41276-022-00367-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41276-022-00367-2"
}