Undocumented Politics : Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants / Abigail Leslie Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Abigail Leslie, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration.

Mixtec Indians--California--San Diego County--Case studies.

Mixtec Indians.

Zapotec Indians--California--Los Angeles--Case studies.

Zapotec Indians.

Mixtec Indians--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--Case studies.

Zapotec Indians--Mexico--Oaxaca (State)--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In 2018, more than eleven million undocumented immigrants lived in the United States. Not since slavery had so many U.S. residents held so few political rights. Many strove tirelessly to belong. Others turned to their homelands for hope. What explains their clashing strategies of inclusion? And how does gender play into these fights? Undocumented Politics offers a gripping inquiry into migrant communities' struggles for rights and resources across the U.S.-Mexico divide. For twenty-one months, Abigail Andrews lived with two groups of migrants and their families in the mountains of Mexico and in the barrios of Southern California. Her nuanced comparison reveals how local laws and power dynamics shape migrants' agency. Andrews also exposes how arbitrary policing abets gendered violence. Yet she insists that the process does not begin or end in the United States. Rather, migrants interpret their destinations in light of the hometowns they leave behind. Their counterparts in Mexico must also come to grips with migrant globalization. And on both sides of the border, men and women transform patriarchy through their battles to belong. Ambitious and intimate, Undocumented Politics reveals how the excluded find space for political voice.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Legacies of (In)Equity

2. "Illegality" under Two Local Modes of Control

3. Stoicism and Striving in the Face of Exclusion

4. Cross-Border Fights, Rifts, and Ties

5. Pathways to Hometown Change

Conclusion

Methodological Appendix: Listening to Difference

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Other Format:

Online version: Andrews, Abigail, author. Undocumented politics

ISBN:

9780520971561

0520971566

OCLC:

1023820451