Transborder Lives Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon

Name: Transborder Lives Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon
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ISBN: 9780822339908

ISBN-10: 0822339900

ISBN-13: 9780822339908

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lynn Stephen

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Lynn Stephen's innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca--the Mixtec community of San Agustin Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlan del Valle--who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and Oregon. Demonstrating that the line separating Mexico and the United States is only one among the many borders that these migrants repeatedly cross (including national, regional, cultural, ethnic, and class borders and divisions), Stephen advocates an ethnographic framework focused on transborder, rather than transnational, lives. Yet she does not disregard the state: She assesses the impact migration…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 6/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Illustrations and Tables


Preface


Acknowledgments



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


Notes


Works Cited


Index