Intimate migrations : gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans

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Label

Intimate migrations : gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans

Title remainder

gender, family, and illegality among transnational Mexicans

Statement of responsibility

Deborah A. Boehm

Creator

• Boehm, Deborah A

Author

• Boehm, Deborah A

Subject

• Einwanderungspolitik
• Electronic books
• Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• Illegal aliens
• Illegal aliens -- United States
• Illegalität
• Immigrant families
• Immigrant families -- United States
• Immigrants -- Social conditions
• Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions
• Internationale Migration
• Mexican American families
• Mexican American families
• Mexican Americans -- Social conditions
• Mexican Americans -- Social conditions
• Mexicans -- Social conditions
• Mexico
• Mexico -- Emigration and immigration | Social aspects
• Mexikanerin
• Mexikanischer Einwanderer
• Migration
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | General
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration
• Sex role
• Sex role -- United States
• Transnationalism
• Transnationalism
• United States
• United States -- Emigration and immigration | Social aspects
• Verwandtschaft
• Mexicans -- United States -- Social conditions
• Arbeitnehmer

Language

eng

Summary

"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' 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. This book 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 Potosi 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." From the publisher

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

304.8/73072

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.M5

LC item number

B59 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography