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Mobile selves : race, migration, and belonging in Peru and the U.S /

Mobile Selves illuminates how transnational communicative practices and forms of exchange produce new forms of kinship and social relations, as well as new forms of self-presentation and belonging for global labor migrants. It shows how migrants create new portrayals of themselves which work both to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berg, Ulla D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2015.
Series:Social transformations in American anthropology.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Salir Adelante : Migration, Travel, and Aspirational Economies in the Central Andes
  • Paper Fixes : The Making of Mobile Subjects in Peru's Migration Industry
  • Remote Sensing : Structures of Feeling in Long-Distance Communication
  • Unfortunate Visibilities : The Transnational Circulation of Image-Objects
  • Enframing Peruvianness : Folkloric Citizenship and Immigrant Personhood
  • Phantom Citizens in El Quinto Suyo.