Sweet home Chicago? : Mexican migration and the question of belonging and return /

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among aged Mexican migrants in Chicago, Franziska Bedorf investigates the phenomenon of return migration by tracing how people's intentions to go back change over time. Considering global labour mobility, she evaluates transformations of belonging and t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bedorf, Franziska (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld [Germany] : Transcript Verlag, [2018]
Colección:Global studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
Temas:
Mexicans > Illinois > Chicago > History.
Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
Mexicains > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire.
Émigration et immigration > Aspect psychologique.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects
Emigration and immigration
Mexicans
Chicago (Ill.) > Emigration and immigration.
Illinois > Chicago
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Theoretical perspectives : discussing migration, return and belonging
  • Research design and methods
  • Setting : exploring Mexican Chicago
  • Locating the people : elderly Mexicans in Chicago today
  • Expectations : envisaging a place for the future and weighing the idea of return
  • Experiences : configuring belonging by remembering the past : narratives of emerging attachments and detachments
  • Expressions : practices of belonging today
  • Discussion and conclustion.

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