Research Catalog

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Description

1. xxii, 375 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Oaxaca (State) > Migrations
2. Indians of Mexico > Relocation > West (U.S.)
3. Indians of Mexico > Employment > West (U.S.)
4. Frontier workers > Mexico > Oaxaca (State)
5. Migrant labor > Mexico > Oaxaca (State)
6. Oaxaca (Mexico : State) > Emigration and immigration
7. West (U.S.) > Emigration and immigration

Contents

1. Approaches to transborder lives -- Transborder communities in political and historical context : views from Oaxaca -- Mexicans in California and Oregon -- Transborder labor lives : harvesting, housecleaning, gardening, and childcare -- Surveillance and invisibility in the lives of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon -- Women's transborder lives : gender relations in work and families -- Navigating the borders of racial and ethnic hierarchies -- Grassroots organizing in transborder lives -- Transborder ethnic identity construction in life and on the net : e-mail and web page construction and use -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Notes on collaborative research.

Call number

1. JGE 07-190

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index.

Author

1. Stephen, Lynn.

Title

1. Transborder lives : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon / Lynn Stephen.

Imprint

1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

LCCN

1. 2006038001

ISBN

1. 9780822339724 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0822339722 (cloth : alk. paper)
3. 9780822339908 (pbk. : alk. paper)
4. 0822339900 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JGE 07-190