Words of passage : national longing and the imagined lives of Mexican migrants /

Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico--even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others' l...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dick, Hilary Parsons (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Mexicans > Migrations.
Mexicains > Migrations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Uriangato (Mexico) > Emigration and immigration.
Mexico.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • So far from God: state-wndorsed imaginaries of moral mobility in Mexico
  • Private eyes, good girls: authoritative accounts and the social life of interviewing
  • Diaspora at home: homebuilding and the failures of progress
  • Possibility and perdition: discursive interaction and ethico-moral practice in traditionalist talk of migration
  • Saints and suffering: critical appeal in relationships with the divine beyond.

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