Fathering within and beyond the Failures of the State with Imagination, Work and Love : The Case of the Mexican Father / by Marta Sánchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez, Marta, Author.

Series:

Breakthroughs in the Sociology of Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2017.

Summary:

When Emilio López made his way to Atlanta, Georgia from México’s third most populated city, where he had grown up, worked, married and had two daughters, he was in pain. He had hurt his back in a work-related accident and was still recovering. “Es algo que no se lo deseo a nadie” [It’s something I don’t wish upon anyone], he began. Eventually he would come to talk about another kind of pain that previously had been too raw to share, one provoked by having to leave his school-aged daughters, wife, and country in search of a job ‘para ver por mi familia’ [to look after my family]. Emilio, and others in this study, father at a distance from their children once they cross the México-U.S. border. They tell a story about globalization and neoliberalism that reveals the dystopias families traverse when parents cross borders as a way to ‘look after their family.’ The narratives challenge policies, laws and economic arrangements that separate families. The fathers also remind us that whileMexican immigrants support the Mexican economy to the tune of 24 billion dollars a year through remittances, and help fuel the U.S. economy through their underpaid labor, the fathers see themselves as much more than workers and providers. Their identities are informed by an expansive definition of fathering. Although the fathers’ sense of disillusionment grows as they experience only modest gains for their families and live in precarious circumstances themselves, they nonetheless create radical and bold models of affection, care, love and fathering that help them overcome borders and the failures of the state to stay connected as a family.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Migrating to Father, Migrating to Provide

Defining the Problem Space

Intimate Terrorism del Norte…y mexicana

Intersecting Fields: Perspectives on Fathering at a Distance

The ‘Father as Provider’ Construct

The Father’s Contribution

Immigrant Fathers Living with Their Children

Transnational Fatherhood

Child Outcomes

The Fathers in This Study

Learning from padres mexicanos: A Pondering of Selves

Who Are They?

Four Fathers en el Norte

Cinco papás en México [Five Fathers in México]

Theoretical Frames

Representation and Translation

Testimonio: Pasar la frontera

Testimonio as Method

Testimonio: La travesía [Testimonio: The Crossing]

The Fathers in North Carolina: The Everyday Practice of Being an Immigrant: Sign Reading, Meta-Ideologizing, and Differential Consciousness

Drugs in México

Education in México

Sign Reading

Meta-Ideologizing

Differential Consciousness

Methodology of the Oppressed (MotO) as Taken up by the U.S.-Based Fathers in North Carolina

Facing an Acute Family or Financial Crisis

Meta-Ideology: Work as Love

Para seguir adelante [To Keep Moving Forward, to Progress]

Engaging Differential Consciousness to Move and Stay Ahead

Para un mejor vivir [For a Better Life]

Sign-Reading Both Sides of Fathering at a Distance

Working Skillfully in the New Latino South

Shifting Gears to Stay Employed

Fathering without Borders: The Undocumented Mexican Male Immigrant Worker Status as Fathering

Fathering Dispositions, Practices, and Strategies

An Insider/Outsider in México: Welcomed as familia, Schooled as a Newcomer

Valley Girl

Getting There

Héroes de la Independencia Middle School

Secundaria Niños Héroes/Niños Heroes Middle School

Political Economy in Person: The Fathers in México

Lessons from the Fathers in México

Political Economy as Lived Experience

The Mothers and the Children: Las plegarias

Las madres

La plegaria de los niños

Intimate Terrorism: The State as Assassin of Families’ Dreams and Children’s Futures

Authorization from La Jornada

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789463008334

9463008330

OCLC:

972478156