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Work on the West Side addresses two important issues that have been neglected in the current debate on urban minorities and labor markets: the role of geographical processes in shaping the employment situation of urban minority youths, and the social production of space and place. As a case study, Harald Bauder draws on census date and ethnographic fieldwork with Latino youths and administrators of community-based institutions in two inner-city neighborhoods of San Antonio. Bauder demonstrates how the depiction of urban minority youths as "dysfunctional" and "deviant" interlocks with labor market segmentation to isolate and exclude some inner-city neighborhoods from the wider social fabric of cities. Although this case study deals with second and third generation Latinos in a booming Sunbelt city, the book unearths fundamental geographical and social processes that are reflective of other cities in which ethnic composition and economic conditions are different.