Migrant longing : letter writing across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands /

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"Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border, Miroslava Chávez-García recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both "here&qu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Temas:
Mexicans > United States > Correspondence.
Immigrants > United States > Correspondence.
Mexicans > United States > Social conditions > Correspondence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Hispanic American Studies.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Immigrants
Mexicans
Mexicans > Social conditions
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects > Correspondence.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects > Sources.
Mexico
United States
Personal correspondence
Sources
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • An archive of intimacy
  • Oye Shelly: migrant longing, courtship, and gendered identity
  • Tu peor es nada: gender, courtship, and marriage
  • Contesta pronto: migration, return migration, and paternal authority
  • A dios: migration, miscommunication, and heartbreak
  • A toda madre (ATM): migrant dreams and nightmares in El Norte
  • On the significance of letter writing and letters.

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