Mexican New York : transnational lives of new immigrants /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Smith, Robert C., 1964-
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.
Description:	x, 375 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions. Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions. Transnationalism. Emigration and immigration. Ethnic relations. Immigrants -- Social conditions. International relations. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Transnationalism. United States -- Relations -- Mexico. Mexico -- Relations -- United States. New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration. Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Emigration and immigration. New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations. Mexico. Mexico -- Puebla (State) New York (State) -- New York. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5785186

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ISBN:	0520244125 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520244133 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-349) and index.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Transnational Life in Ethnographic Perspective
2. Mexican Immigrants in New York: Contexts for Transnational Life
3. "Los Ausentes Siempre Presentes": Making a Local-Level Transnational Political Community
4. The Defeat of Don Victorio: Transnationalization, Democratization, and Regime Change
5. Gender Strategies, Settlement, and Transnational Life
6. "In Ticuani, He Goes Crazy": The Second Generation Renegotiates Gender
7. "Padre Jesus Is Our Protector": Adolescence, Religion, and Social Location in New York and Ticuani
8. "I'll Go Back Next Year": Transnational Life across the Life Course
9. Defending Your Name: The Roots and Transnationalization of Mexican Gangs
10. "Why You Gotta Mess Up a Good Place?": Returning to a Changed Ticuani Conclusions and Recommendations Coda: The Mexican Educational Foundation of New York
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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