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Flexible families : Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica / Caitlin E. Fouratt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fouratt, Caitlin, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrant families--Nicaragua.
- Immigrant families.
- Women immigrants--Family relationships--Nicaragua.
- Women immigrants.
- Grandmothers--Family relationships--Nicaragua.
- Grandmothers.
- Children of immigrants--Family relationships--Nicaragua.
- Children of immigrants.
- Fatherless families--Nicaragua.
- Fatherless families.
- Grandparents as parents--Nicaragua.
- Grandparents as parents.
- Intergenerational relations--Nicaragua.
- Intergenerational relations.
- Transnationalism--Social aspects--Nicaragua.
- Transnationalism.
- Nicaragua--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Nicaragua.
- Nicaragua--Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 181 pages) : map
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
- Contents:
- Introduction. "The Family is a Little Society"
- State, family, and solidarity in the Nicaraguan nation
- Locked up and waiting
- Single mothers and absent fathers
- Reconfiguring relationships across borders
- Mamitas: Grandmothering in transnational families
- "I eat all my money here": Remittances in transnational family life
- Returns and reunions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 04, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Fouratt, Caitlin, 1982- Flexible families
- ISBN:
- 9780826504395
- 0826504396
- 9780826504388
- 0826504388
- Publisher Number:
- 40031216728
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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