Zavella I'm Neither Here nor There

Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9425-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Studies poor and working-class Mexicans in the USA, showing how migration influences the creation of identity, family, and community and how it affects even those who don't themselves actually migrate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zavella, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xv

Introduction. The Mexican Diaspora in the United States 1

1. Crossings 25

2. Migrations 55

3. The Working Poor 89

4. Migrant Family Formations 123

5. The Divided Home 157

6. Transnational Cultural Memory 190

Epilogue 226

Appendix. Research Participants 233

Notes 239

References 281

Index 319

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Women’s Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley and a co-author of Sunbelt Working Mothers: Reconciling Family and Factory. Zavella is a co-editor of Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader, Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios, and Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader all also published by Duke University Press.