03999nam 2200841 a 450 991081313530332120240516130203.00-8147-8986-20-8147-8985-410.18574/9780814789858(CKB)2670000000155530(EBL)866068(OCoLC)779828397(SSID)ssj0000656677(PQKBManifestationID)11401602(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000656677(PQKBWorkID)10633507(PQKB)10307401(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323531(MiAaPQ)EBC866068(OCoLC)787848546(MdBmJHUP)muse19832(DE-B1597)548068(DE-B1597)9780814789858(Au-PeEL)EBL866068(CaPaEBR)ebr10541097(EXLCZ)99267000000015553020111109d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierIntimate migrations[electronic resource] gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans /Deborah A. Boehm1st ed.New York New York University Pressc20121 online resource (193 pages)Description based upon print version of record.1-4798-8555-X 0-8147-8983-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Transborder families -- pt. 2. Gendered migrations -- pt. 3. Children on the move.In her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to live? Almost always, they desire the freedom to “come and go.” Yet the barriers preventing such movement are many. Because of the United States’ rigid immigration policies, Mexican immigrants often find themselves living long distances from family members and unable to easily cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Transnational Mexicans experience what Boehm calls “intimate migrations,” flows that both shape and are structured by gendered and familial actions and interactions, but are always defined by the presence of the U.S. state. Intimate Migrations is based on over a decade of ethnographic research, focusing on Mexican immigrants with ties to a small, rural community in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí and several states in the U.S. West. By showing how intimate relations direct migration, and by looking at kin and gender relationships through the lens of illegality, Boehm sheds new light on the study of gender and kinship, as well as understandings of the state and transnational migration.MexicansUnited StatesSocial conditionsMexican AmericansSocial conditionsImmigrantsUnited StatesSocial conditionsTransnationalismSex roleUnited StatesMexican American familiesImmigrant familiesUnited StatesNoncitizensUnited StatesIllegal immigrationUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsMexicoEmigration and immigrationSocial aspectsMexicansSocial conditions.Mexican AmericansSocial conditions.ImmigrantsSocial conditions.Transnationalism.Sex roleMexican American families.Immigrant familiesNoncitizensIllegal immigration.304.8/73072Boehm Deborah A1632841MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813135303321Intimate migrations3972280UNINA110.1405/03/2017Hist