An impossible living in a transborder world : culture, confianza, and economy of Mexican-origin populations / / Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956140003321
• Autore: Vélez-Ibañez Carlos G. <1936->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-299-19129-0; 0-8165-0108-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: x, 241 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 306.30972/1
• Soggetti: Rotating credit associations - Mexico; Rotating credit associations - Southwest, New; Mexican Americans - Southwest, New - Economic conditions; Mexican-American Border Region Economic conditions; Mexican-American Border Region Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-233) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The transborder and transnational dimensions of culture and political economy -- Confianza: building block of social exchange and the operational cycles of ROSCAs -- Social and cultural dimensions and dynamics of their class contexts -- Living at a slant in the midst of megascripts in the transborder Southwest North American region: dos mujeres sin fin -- Crossing divisions and social borders: ROSCAs as transborder practices and their functions -- Conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: They are known as cundinas or tandas in Mexico, and for many people these local savings-and-loan operations play an indispensable role in the struggle to succeed in today's transborder economy. With this extensively researched book, Carlos Velez-Ibanez updates and expands upon his major 1983 study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), incorporating new data that reflect the explosion of Mexican-origin populations in the United States. Much more than a study of one economic phenomenon though, the book examines the way in which these practices are part of greater transnational economies and how these populations engage in--and suffer through--the twenty-first century global economy. Central to the ; ROSCA is the cultural concept of mutual trust, or confianza. This is the cultural glue that holds the reciprocal relationship together. As Velez-Ibanez explains, confianza "shapes the expectations for relationships within broad networks of interpersonal links, in which intimacies, favors, goods, services, emotion, power, or information are exchanged." In a border region where migration, class movement, economic changes, and institutional inaccessibility produce a great deal of uncertainty, Mexican-origin populations rely on confianza and ROSCAs to maintain a sense of security in daily life. How do transborder people adapt these common practices to meet the demands of a global economy? That is precisely what Velez-Ibanez investigates.