Women who stay behind : pedagogies of survival in rural transmigrant Mexico /

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"The book uncovers the social, educational, and cultural tools rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by migration. It addresses the material conditions that lead to the migration of adults from the area, but at the core are the educational and personal endeavor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Trinidad Galván, Ruth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015.
©2015
Subjects:
Mexicans > United States.
Immigrants > United States.
Foreign workers > Family relationships > Mexico.
Wives > Effect of husband's employment on > Mexico.
Rural women > Mexico > Social conditions.
Femmes mariées > Effets du travail du mari sur > Mexique.
Travailleurs étrangers > Relations familiales > Mexique.
Migration, immigration & emigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Immigrants
Mexicans
Rural women > Social conditions
Wives > Effect of husband's employment on
Mexico
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Julieta : wife of a migrant man
  • Transmigration, transborder realities, and the transformation of women who stay behind
  • Andrea : hesitant and unappreciated activist
  • Globalizing from below and the work of grassroots organizations
  • Carolina : devoted mother and community leader
  • Pedagogical spaces of convivencia and healing
  • Jovita : caring and humble woman
  • Campesina epistemologies and pedagogies of the spirit.

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