Beyond the Borderlands : Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico / Debra Lattanzi Shutika.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lattanzi Shutika, Debra, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

Mexican Americans.

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

Kennett Square (Pa.)--Ethnic relations.

Kennett Square (Pa.).

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

Guanajuato (Mexico : State).

Local Subjects:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the last three decades, 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 U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the "Mushroom Capital of the World." In a highly readable account based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and their American neighbors, Debra Lattanzi Shutika explores the issues of belonging and displacement that are central concerns for residents in communities that have become new destinations for Mexican settlement. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: New Borders and Destinations

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

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

4. In the Shadows and Out: Mexican Kennett Square

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

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

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

Epilogue

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613278470

9781283278478

1283278472

9780520950238

0520950232

OCLC:

739051500