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Transnational struggles : policy, gender, and family life on the Texas-Mexico border / Juan José Bustamante.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bustamante, Juan José, 1965-
- Series:
- New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
- The new Americans : recent immigration and American society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexicans--Texas--Social conditions.
- Mexicans.
- Mexicans--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Immigrant families--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
- Immigrant families.
- Transnationalism.
- Assimilation (Sociology).
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bustamante provides a rare insight of the border as an entire transnational social field, with a similar racial and ethnic composition. He finds a borderlands region patterned by political oppression and gender inequality. This oppressive situation and the lack of access to institutional resources entice families to seek and use resources provided by Mexican relatives across the border. This salient issue places transnational engagement as a strategy based on available options, not a preferred choice. Therefore, transnationalism is an approach that many border immigrants would like to avoid. Finally, Steven Gold's definition of transnational engagement is employed to theoretically capture family life shaped by numerous external conditions that transcend national borders.
- Contents:
- Framing the border
- A qualitative inquiry
- The Border, La Frontera as context
- The significance of political practices
- The significance of gender arrangements
- The significance of family relations
- Borderlands transnationalism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781593327354
- 1593327358
- OCLC:
- 862103679
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