Transnational Struggles : Policy, Gender, and Family Life on the Texas-Mexico Border.

Bustamante provides a rare insight of the border as an entire transnational social field, with a similar racial and ethnic composition. He finds a borderlands region patterned by political oppression and gender inequality. This oppressive situation and the lack of access to institutional resources e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bustamente, Juan Jose
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2013.
Colección:New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Temas:
Mexicans > Texas > Social conditions.
Mexicans > Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Immigrant families > Mexican-American Border Region > Social conditions.
Transnationalism.
Assimilation (Sociology)
Mexicains > Texas > Conditions sociales.
Mexicains > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Familles immigrantes > Région frontalière mexicano-américaine > Conditions sociales.
Transnationalisme.
Assimilation (Sociologie)
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Mexicans > Social conditions
Transnationalism
United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Mexico
North America > Mexican-American Border Region
Texas
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Bustamante provides a rare insight of the border as an entire transnational social field, with a similar racial and ethnic composition. He finds a borderlands region patterned by political oppression and gender inequality. This oppressive situation and the lack of access to institutional resources entice families to seek and use resources provided by Mexican relatives across the border. This salient issue places transnational engagement as a strategy based on available options, not a preferred choice. Therefore, transnationalism is an approach that many border immigrants would like to avoid. F.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (187 pages)
ISBN:9781593327354
1593327358

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