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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838214203321

Autore

Sandoval-Cervantes Iván

Titolo

Oaxaca in Motion : An Ethnography of Internal, Transnational, and Return Migration / / Iván Sandoval-Cervantes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

1-4773-2606-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.) : 2 color photos, 1 b&w map

Disciplina

304.80972/74

Soggetti

Internal migrants - Mexico - Social life and customs

Migration, Internal - Social aspects - Mexico - Oaxaca (State)

Return migration - Social aspects - Mexico - Oaxaca (State)

Sex role

Zapotec Indians - Family relationships

Zapotec Indians - Kinship

Zapotec Indians - United States - Social life and customs

Zapotec women - Mexico - Mexico City - Social life and customs

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Noticing Internal and Transnational Migrations -- Chapter 1. Research in Zegache: Multiple Histories -- Chapter 2. Leaving Zegache: Internal and Transnational Women Migrants -- Chapter 3. Labor Corridors I: Peasants and Soldiers -- Chapter 4. Labor Corridors II: Transnational Migration and Masculinity -- Chapter 5. The Masculine Familiarity of Work; or, How Cooking Became Masculine -- Chapter 6. Migration and Femininity: Beyond the Tutelage of the Mothers-in-Law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Migration is typically seen as a transnational phenomenon, but it happens within borders, too. Oaxaca in Motion documents a revealing irony in the latter sort: internal migration often is global in character, motivated by foreign affairs and international economic integration,



and it is no less transformative than its cross-border analogue. Iván Sandoval-Cervantes spent nearly two years observing and interviewing migrants from the rural Oaxacan town of Santa Ana Zegache. Many women from the area travel to Mexico City to work as domestics, and men are encouraged to join the Mexican military to fight the US-instigated “war on drugs” or else leave their fields to labor in industries serving global supply chains. Placing these moves in their historical and cultural context, Sandoval-Cervantes discovers that migrants’ experiences dramatically alter their conceptions of gender, upsetting their traditional notions of masculinity and femininity. And some migrants bring their revised views with them when they return home, influencing their families and community of origin. Comparing Oaxacans moving within Mexico to those living along the US West Coast, Sandoval-Cervantes clearly demonstrates the multiplicity of answers to the question, “Who is a migrant?”