Transnational struggles : policy, gender, and family life on the Texas-Mexico border /
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| Author / Creator: | Bustamante, Juan José, 1965- |
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| Imprint: | El Paso, Texas : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014. |
| Description: | xiii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The new Americans : recent immigration and American society |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10079055 |
| Summary: | Bustamante provides a rare insight of the border as an entire transnational social field, with a similar racial and ethnic composition. He finds a borderlands region patterned by political oppression and gender inequality. This oppressive situation and the lack of access to institutional resources entice families to seek and use resources provided by Mexican relatives across the border. This salient issue places transnational engagement as a strategy based on available options, not a preferred choice. Therefore, transnationalism is an approach that many border immigrants would like to avoid. Finally, Steven Gold¿s definition of transnational engagement is employed to theoretically capture family life shaped by numerous external conditions that transcend national borders. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-169) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781593326975 1593326971 |