Migrant longing : letter writing across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands /

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Author / Creator:Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968- author.
Imprint:Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Description:xi, 261 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11538162
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ISBN:9781469641027
146964102X
9781469641034
1469641038
9781469641041
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border, Miroslava Chávez-García recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both "here" and "there" ("aquí y allá"). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply emotional, personal, and social lives of ordinary Mexican men and women as recorded in their immediate, firsthand accounts. Chávez-García demonstrates not only how migrants struggled to maintain their sense of humanity in "El Norte" but also how those remaining at home made sense of their changing identities in response to the loss of loved ones who sometimes left for weeks, months, or years at a time, or simply never returned"--

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