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Intimate migrations : gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans / / Deborah A. Boehm



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Autore: Boehm Deborah A Visualizza persona
Titolo: Intimate migrations : gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans / / Deborah A. Boehm Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 pages)
Disciplina: 304.8/73072
Soggetto topico: Mexicans - United States - Social conditions
Mexican Americans - Social conditions
Immigrants - United States - Social conditions
Transnationalism
Sex role - United States
Mexican American families
Immigrant families - United States
Noncitizens - United States
Illegal immigration
Soggetto geografico: United States Emigration and immigration Social aspects
Mexico Emigration and immigration Social aspects
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Transborder families -- pt. 2. Gendered migrations -- pt. 3. Children on the move.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Intimate migrations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-8986-2
0-8147-8985-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813135303321
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