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Transborder lives : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon /

Explores how two populations of indigenous Mexican migrants are using their multi-layered identities and bi-national labor experiences to organize for economic and political change.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stephen, Lynn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Approaches to transborder lives
  • Transborder communities in political and historical context : views from Oaxaca
  • Mexicans in California and Oregon
  • Transborder labor lives : harvesting, housecleaning, gardening, and childcare
  • Surveillance and invisibility in the lives of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon
  • Women's transborder lives : gender relations in work and families
  • Navigating the borders of racial and ethnic hierarchies
  • Grassroots organizing in transborder lives
  • Transborder ethnic identity construction in life and on the net : e-mail and web page construction and use
  • Conclusions
  • Epilogue: Notes on collaborative research.