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Words of Passage : National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants /
Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico-even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others' li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Technical Note: Methodology and Methods
- Introduction. Words of Passage: Imagined Lives, Migration Discourse, and National Belonging
- 1. So Far from God: State-Endorsed Imaginaries of Moral Mobility in Mexico
- 2. Private Eyes, Good Girls: Authoritative Accounts and the Social Life of Interviewing
- 3. Diaspora at Home: Homebuilding and the Failures of Progress
- 4. Possibility and Perdition: Discursive Interaction and Ethico-moral Practice in Traditionalist Talk of Migration
- 5. Saints and Suffering: Critical Appeal in Relationships with the Divine Beyond
- Conclusion. Worlds of Passage: Moral Mobility in Global Context
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index