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The near northwest side story : migration, displacement, and Puerto Rican families / Gina M. Perez.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pérez, Gina M., 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Migrations.
- Puerto Ricans.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- San Sebastián (P.R.)--Emigration and immigration--History.
- San Sebastián (P.R.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Near Northwest Side Story is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and gender. Gina M. Perez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information.
- Contents:
- Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction: A Gendered Tale of Two Barrios; 2 "Fleeing the Cane" and the Origins of Displacement; 3 "Know Your Fellow American Citizen from Puerto Rico"; 4 Los de Afuera, Transnationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Identity; 5 Gentrification, Intrametropolitan Migration, and the Politics of Place; 6 Transnational Lives, Kin Work, and Strategies of Survival; 7 Conclusion: Revisiting the Gender, Poverty, and Migration Debate; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-93641-8
- 1-59734-772-8
- OCLC:
- 475930265
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