Transformations of la familia on the U.S.-Mexico border / edited by Raquel R. Márquez and Harriett D. Romo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Márquez, Raquel R.

Romo, Harriett.

Series:

Latino perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Mexican-American Border Region.

Families.

Mexican American women--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.

Mexican American women.

Women immigrants--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.

Women immigrants.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2008]

Contents:

A demographic profile of children and families in the U.S.-Mexico border region / Yolanda C. Padilla and Ana Marie Argilagos

An overview of children and youth on the northern Mexican border / Catalina Palmer

The extended border : a case study of San Antonio as a transnational city / Harriett D. Romo

The complex picture of cities near the U.S.-Mexico border : the case of southern California / Belinda I. Reyes and Amanda G. Bailey

Maquiladora or cross-border commute : the employment of members of households in five Mexican border cities / Marie-Laure Coubès

Transborder interactions and transnational processes in the border community of Laredo, Texas / Raquel R. Márquez

Coming of age across borders: family, gender, and place in the lives of second-generation transnational Mexicanas / Patricia Sánchez

"I'm bien pocha": borderlands epistemologies and the teaching of English in Mexico / Mary A. Petron

The real and the symbolic : visualizing border spaces / Amelia Malagamba-Ansótegui

Latina entrepreneurship in the borderlands : family well-being and poverty reduction policies / Bárbara J. Robles

Public policy changes on the U.S.-Mexico border / Irasema Coronado.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268035099

0268035091

OCLC:

181599764