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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777996103321

Autore

Stephen Lynn

Titolo

Transborder lives [[electronic resource] ] : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon / / Lynn Stephen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-282-92332-3

9786612923326

0-8223-8996-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (399 p.)

Disciplina

304.8089/91411

Soggetti

Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Oaxaca (State) - Migrations

Indians of Mexico - Relocation - West (U.S.)

Indians of Mexico - Employment - West (U.S.)

Frontier workers - Mexico - Oaxaca (State)

Migrant labor - Mexico - Oaxaca (State)

Oaxaca (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration

West (U.S.) Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Approaches to transborder lives -- Transborder communities in political and historical context : views from Oaxaca -- Mexicans in California and Oregon -- Transborder labor lives : harvesting, housecleaning, gardening, and childcare -- Surveillance and invisibility in the lives of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon -- Women's transborder lives : gender relations in work and families -- Navigating the borders of racial and ethnic hierarchies -- Grassroots organizing in transborder lives -- Transborder ethnic identity construction in life and on the net : e-mail and web page construction and use -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Notes on collaborative research.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores how two populations of indigenous Mexican migrants are using their multi-layered identities and bi-national labor experiences to organize for economic and political change.