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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephen, Lynn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--Migrations.

Indians of Mexico.

Indians of Mexico--Relocation--West (U.S.).

Indians of Mexico--Employment--West (U.S.).

Frontier workers--Mexico--Oaxaca (State).

Frontier workers.

Mexico--Oaxaca (State).

Migrant labor--Mexico--Oaxaca (State).

Migrant labor.

Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--Emigration and immigration.

Oaxaca (Mexico : State).

West (U.S.)--Emigration and immigration.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

xxii, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780822339724

0822339722

9780822339908

0822339900

OCLC:

76820662