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Living together across borders : communicative care in transnational Salvadoran families / Lynnette Arnold.
Penn Museum Library JZ1320 .A76 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arnold, Lynnette, author.
- Series:
- Oxford studies in the anthropology of language
- Oxford studies in the anthropology of language series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- El Salvador--Foreign relations--United States.
- El Salvador.
- United States--Foreign relations--El Salvador.
- United States.
- Transnationalism.
- Salvadorans--United States--Social conditions.
- Salvadorans.
- Communication in families--El Salvador.
- Communication in families.
- Salvadorans--United States--Communication.
- Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Living together across borders: Separated Salvadoran families and the power of everyday conversation presents a multisited ethnography of communication in extended families living stretched between El Salvador and the United States. The book examines seemingly mundane conversational practices-such as sending greetings, negotiating remittances, and reminiscing together-that are central to family life across borders. It underscores the consequentiality of these linguistic practices by tracing how they are shaped by and re-shape gendered and generational norms of family care, as well as how they are tied to Salvadoran histories of migration, violence, and poverty, which are powerfully influenced by U.S. economic and foreign policy. The book demonstrates that these communicative practices bring inequities between global North and South into family life by continually reproducing distinctions between relatives in El Salvador and those living in the United States. At the same time, however, transnational families use cross-border communication to forge convivencia (living-together) at-a-distance. Although these relational moments of cross-border connection are fleeting, their impacts endure, laying the foundation for the ongoing material and economic provisioning necessary to family survival. Through cross-border conversations, families nurture intergenerational relations that sustain the family over the years despite ongoing separation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prologue : Why I wrote this book
- Communication and Care-at-a-Distance
- Making family care political : State-endorsed migration discourse in El Salvador
- Transnational care in multigenerational households : Asymmetrical practices and moral meanings
- “Les Mando Saludos” : Sending greetings, envisioning family, and grappling with inequality
- Talking remittances : The conversational temporalities of intergenerational care
- Communicative memory : Defying institutional forgetting through remembering as care
- Social change through communicative care.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Arnold, Lynnette. Living together across borders
- ISBN:
- 9780197755730
- 0197755739
- 9780197755747
- 0197755747
- OCLC:
- 1427156451
- Publisher Number:
- 90100149984
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