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:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history.
Subject:	Mexicans -- United States -- Correspondence. Immigrants -- United States -- Correspondence. Mexicans -- United States -- Social conditions -- Correspondence. Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Immigrants. Mexicans. Mexicans -- Social conditions. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- Correspondence. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- Sources. Mexico. United States. Personal correspondence. Sources.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12018927

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ISBN:	9781469641041 1469641046 9781469641058 1469641054 9781469641027 146964102X 9781469641034 1469641038
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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"--
Other form:	Print version: Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968- Migrant longing. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469641027

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