Transborder Lives

Transborder Lives
Author :
Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 452
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0822389967
ISBN-13 : 9780822389965
Rating : 4/5 (965 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Transborder Lives by : Lynn Stephen

Download or read book Transborder Lives written by Lynn Stephen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynn Stephen’s innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca—the Mixtec community of San Agustín Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlán del Valle—who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and Oregon. Demonstrating that the line separating Mexico and the United States is only one among the many borders that these migrants repeatedly cross (including national, regional, cultural, ethnic, and class borders and divisions), Stephen advocates an ethnographic framework focused on transborder, rather than transnational, lives. Yet she does not disregard the state: She assesses the impact migration has had on local systems of government in both Mexico and the United States as well as the abilities of states to police and affect transborder communities. Stephen weaves the personal histories and narratives of indigenous transborder migrants together with explorations of the larger structures that affect their lives. Taking into account U.S. immigration policies and the demands of both commercial agriculture and the service sectors, she chronicles how migrants experience and remember low-wage work in agriculture, landscaping, and childcare and how gender relations in Oaxaca and the United States are reconfigured by migration. She looks at the ways that racial and ethnic hierarchies inherited from the colonial era—hierarchies that debase Mexico’s indigenous groups—are reproduced within heterogeneous Mexican populations in the United States. Stephen provides case studies of four grass-roots organizations in which Mixtec migrants are involved, and she considers specific uses of digital technology by transborder communities. Ultimately Stephen demonstrates that transborder migrants are reshaping notions of territory and politics by developing creative models of governance, education, and economic development as well as ways of maintaining their cultures and languages across geographic distances.


Transborder Lives Related Books

Transborder Lives
Language: en
Pages: 452
Authors: Lynn Stephen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-06-13 - Publisher: Duke University Press

GET EBOOK

Lynn Stephen’s innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca—the Mixtec community of San Agustín Atenango and th
Multilevel Citizenship
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Willem Maas
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-30 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

GET EBOOK

Multilevel Citizenship challenges the dominant conception of citizenship as legal and political equality within a sovereign state, demonstrates how citizenship
Reflections of a Transborder Anthropologist
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-20 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

GET EBOOK

Taking us on a journey of remembering and rediscovery, anthropologist Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez explores his development as a scholar and in so doing the develo
Redeeming La Raza
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: Gabriela González
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

GET EBOOK

The transborder modernization of Mexico and the American Southwest during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed the lives of ethnic Mexi
Koreatowns
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Jinwon Kim
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-30 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

GET EBOOK

This collection defines Koreatowns as spatial configurations that concentrate elements of “Korea” demographically, economically, politically, and culturally