Miranda Jessica Lubbers is associate professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. She received her PhD from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research addresses two main areas: migration and transnationalism, and poverty and livelihood strategies. Her research has been published in indexed journals like Ethnicities, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and Social Networks.

• Introduction - Miranda J. Lubbers, Hugo Valenzuela, Mario SmallOf Morals and Markets: Social Exchange and Poverty in Contemporary Urban Mexico - Mercedes González de la RochaWalking a Tightrope: Using Financial Diaries to Investigate Day-to-Day Financial Decisions and the Social Safety Net of the Financially Excluded - Olga Biosca, Neil McHugh, Fatma Ibrahim, Rachel Baker, Tim Laxton and Cam DonaldsonRelationships Stretched Thin: Social Support Mobilization in Poverty - Miranda J. Lubbers, Hugo Valenzuela, Paula Escribano, José Luis Molina, Antònia Casellas, Jorge Grau RebolloHow Do Low-Income People Form Survival Networks? The Role of Routine Organizations as Brokers - Mario L. Small, Leah Gose My Crying Is Not a Cry by Itself: Building Sustainable Social Ties through a Poor People’s Organization - Joan M. MazelisHoliday Clubs as Community Organizations - Paul Stretesky, Margaret Anne Defeyter, Michael A. Long, Zeibeda Sattar, Eilish CrilleyA Divided Sisterhood: Support Networks of Transgender Sex Workers in Urban Turkey - Ezgi GülerGaining the Upper Hand: Perspectives on Asymmetries of Transnational Social Protection - Basak BilecenClosing - Katherine Newman

Miranda Jessica Lubbers is associate professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. She received her PhD from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research addresses two main areas: migration and transnationalism, and poverty and livelihood strategies. Her research has been published in indexed journals like Ethnicities, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and Social Networks.

• Introduction - Miranda J. Lubbers, Hugo Valenzuela, Mario SmallOf Morals and Markets: Social Exchange and Poverty in Contemporary Urban Mexico - Mercedes González de la RochaWalking a Tightrope: Using Financial Diaries to Investigate Day-to-Day Financial Decisions and the Social Safety Net of the Financially Excluded - Olga Biosca, Neil McHugh, Fatma Ibrahim, Rachel Baker, Tim Laxton and Cam DonaldsonRelationships Stretched Thin: Social Support Mobilization in Poverty - Miranda J. Lubbers, Hugo Valenzuela, Paula Escribano, José Luis Molina, Antònia Casellas, Jorge Grau RebolloHow Do Low-Income People Form Survival Networks? The Role of Routine Organizations as Brokers - Mario L. Small, Leah Gose My Crying Is Not a Cry by Itself: Building Sustainable Social Ties through a Poor People’s Organization - Joan M. MazelisHoliday Clubs as Community Organizations - Paul Stretesky, Margaret Anne Defeyter, Michael A. Long, Zeibeda Sattar, Eilish CrilleyA Divided Sisterhood: Support Networks of Transgender Sex Workers in Urban Turkey - Ezgi GülerGaining the Upper Hand: Perspectives on Asymmetries of Transnational Social Protection - Basak BilecenClosing - Katherine Newman

Miranda Jessica Lubbers is associate professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. She received her PhD from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research addresses two main areas: migration and transnationalism, and poverty and livelihood strategies. Her research has been published in indexed journals like Ethnicities, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and Social Networks.

• Introduction - Miranda J. Lubbers, Hugo Valenzuela, Mario SmallOf Morals and Markets: Social Exchange and Poverty in Contemporary Urban Mexico - Mercedes González de la RochaWalking a Tightrope: Using Financial Diaries to Investigate Day-to-Day Financial Decisions and the Social Safety Net of the Financially Excluded - Olga Biosca, Neil McHugh, Fatma Ibrahim, Rachel Baker, Tim Laxton and Cam DonaldsonRelationships Stretched Thin: Social Support Mobilization in Poverty - Miranda J. Lubbers, Hugo Valenzuela, Paula Escribano, José Luis Molina, Antònia Casellas, Jorge Grau RebolloHow Do Low-Income People Form Survival Networks? The Role of Routine Organizations as Brokers - Mario L. Small, Leah Gose My Crying Is Not a Cry by Itself: Building Sustainable Social Ties through a Poor People’s Organization - Joan M. MazelisHoliday Clubs as Community Organizations - Paul Stretesky, Margaret Anne Defeyter, Michael A. Long, Zeibeda Sattar, Eilish CrilleyA Divided Sisterhood: Support Networks of Transgender Sex Workers in Urban Turkey - Ezgi GülerGaining the Upper Hand: Perspectives on Asymmetries of Transnational Social Protection - Basak BilecenClosing - Katherine Newman