Transborder lives : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon / / Lynn Stephen

• Autore: Stephen Lynn
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.8089/91411; 304.808997072
• Soggetto topico: 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)
• Soggetto geografico: Oaxaca (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration; West (U.S.) Emigration and immigration
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Transborder lives
• ISBN: 1-282-92332-3; 9786612923326; 0-8223-8996-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816365203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.