Beyond the borderlands : migration and belonging in the United States and Mexico / Debra Lattanzi Shutika.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lattanzi Shutika, Debra, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation--Pennsylvania--Kennett Square.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican Americans--Pennsylvania--Kennett Square--Ethnic identity.

Ethnicity.

Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation.

Kennett Square (Pa.)--Ethnic relations.

Kennett Square (Pa.).

Guanajuato (Mexico : State)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Guanajuato (Mexico : State).

Pennsylvania--Kennett Square.

Physical Description:

xi, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]

Summary:

Since 1990, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the United States by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the "Mushroom Capital of the World." Beyond the Borderlands also completes the circle of migration by following migrant families as they return to their hometown in Mexico, providing an illuminating perspective of the tenuous lives of Mexicans residing in, but not fully part of, two worlds. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: New Borders and Destinations 1

2 "I give thanks to God, after that, the United States": Everyday Life in Textitlán 38

3 La Casa Vacía: Meanings and Memories in Abandoned Immigrant Houses 68

4 In the Shadows and Out: Mexican Kennett Square 91

5 Bridging the Community: Nativism, Activism, and the Politics of Belonging 136

6 There and Back Again: The Pilgrimage of Return Migration 166

7 The Ambivalent Welcome: Cinco de Mayo and the Performance of Local Identity and Ethnic Relations 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520269583

0520269586

9780520269590

0520269594

OCLC:

696318435