Flexible Families : Nicaraguan Transnational Families in Costa Rica /

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"How Nicaraguan immigrants to Costa Rica maintain family across borders"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fouratt, Caitlin, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Women immigrants > Family relationships.
Intergenerational relations.
Immigrant families.
Grandparents as parents.
Grandmothers > Family relationships.
Fatherless families.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Transnationalisme > Aspect social > Nicaragua.
Relations entre generations > Nicaragua.
Grands-parents à nouveau parents > Nicaragua.
Familles sans pere > Nicaragua.
Enfants d'immigrants > Relations familiales > Nicaragua.
Grands-meres > Relations familiales > Nicaragua.
Immigrantes > Relations familiales > Nicaragua.
Familles immigrantes > Nicaragua.
Transnationalism > Social aspects > Nicaragua.
Intergenerational relations > Nicaragua.
Grandparents as parents > Nicaragua.
Fatherless families > Nicaragua.
Children of immigrants > Family relationships > Nicaragua.
Grandmothers > Family relationships > Nicaragua.
Women immigrants > Family relationships > Nicaragua.
Immigrant families > Nicaragua.
Nicaragua.
Nicaragua > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Nicaragua > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. "The Family is a Little Society"
  • State, family, and solidarity in the Nicaraguan nation
  • Locked up and waiting
  • Single mothers and absent fathers
  • Reconfiguring relationships across borders
  • Mamitas: Grandmothering in transnational families
  • "I eat all my money here": Remittances in transnational family life
  • Returns and reunions.

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