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Sweet Home Chicago? Mexican Migration and the Question of Belonging and Return Franziska Bedorf
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bedorf, Franziska <p>Franziska Bedorf, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Global studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
- Global Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migration.
- Belonging.
- Transnationalism.
- Mexico.
- Chicago.
- Aging Studies.
- America.
- Ethnology.
- Local Subjects:
- Migration.
- Belonging.
- Transnationalism.
- Mexico.
- Chicago.
- Aging Studies.
- America.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Bedorf, Sweet Home Chicago? Mexican Migration and the Question of Belonging and Return
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Franziska Bedorf (PhD) is a sociocultural anthropologist and a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include migration, identity formation, and boundary making.
- Summary:
- Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among older Mexican migrants in Chicago, Franziska Bedorf investigates the phenomenon of return migration by tracing how people's intentions to go back change over time. Considering global labour mobility, she examines transformations of belonging and the wider economic, political, social and cultural frameworks that shape them. Against the backdrop of debates on integration, transnationalism and belonging, the study explores why migrants keep and form attachments to and detachments from places, people and cultures.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 11 1. Introduction 13 2. Theoretical Perspectives: Discussing Migration, Return And Belonging 21 3. Research Design And Methods 73 4. Setting: Exploring Mexican Chicago 99 5. Locating The People: Elderly Mexicans In Chicago Today 123 6. Expectations: Envisaging A Place For The Future And Weighing The Idea Of Return 159 7. Experiences: Configuring Belonging By Remembering The Past - Narratives Of Emerging Attachments And Detachments 211 8. Expressions: Practices Of Belonging Today 287 9. Discussion And Conclusion 295 Appendix 307 List Of Figures And Tables 345 Bibliography 349
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839441312
- 3839441315
- OCLC:
- 1057341360
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