The last best place? : gender, family, and migration in the new West /

The last best place? : gender, family, and migration in the new West /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Schmalzbauer, Leah, author.
Imprint:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Migrant labor -- Montana, Western -- Social conditions. Migrant labor -- Montana, Western -- Economic conditions. Migrant laborers' families -- Montana, Western -- Social conditions. Migrant laborers' families -- Montana, Western -- Economic conditions. Foreign workers, Mexican -- Montana, Western -- Social conditions. Foreign workers, Mexican -- Montana, Western -- Economic conditions. Economic history. Foreign workers, Mexican -- Economic conditions. Foreign workers, Mexican -- Social conditions. Migrant labor -- Economic conditions. Migrant labor -- Social conditions. Social conditions. Montana, Western -- Social conditions. Montana, Western -- Economic conditions. Western Montana. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11276283

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ISBN:	9780804792974 0804792976 9780804791656 0804791651 9780804792936 0804792933
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Southwest Montana is beautiful country, evoking mythologies of freedom and escape long associated with the West. Partly because of its burgeoning presence in popular culture, film, and literature, including William Kittredge's anthology The Last Best Place, the scarcely populated region has witnessed an influx of wealthy, white migrants over the last few decades. But another, largely invisible and unstudied type of migration is also present. Though Mexican migrants have worked on Montana's ranches and farms since the 1920s, increasing numbers of migrant families-both documented and undocumente.
Other form:	Print version: Schmalzbauer, Leah. Last best place? 9780804791656

Table of Contents:

Situating gender and migration in the new West
Economic opportunities and gender divisions of labor
Illegality, rurality and daily life
Transnationalism, belonging and the rural idyll
Doing gender : the impact of economic crisis on household dynamics
Through the eyes of the second generation
Hope and opportunity in the new West
The last best place?