The Xaripu community across borders : labor, migration, community, and family /
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| Author / Creator: | Barajas, Manuel, 1968- |
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| Imprint: | Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009. |
| Description: | x, 323 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Latino perspectives |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7712151 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Labor Migration, Community, and Family across Borders
- An Overview of the Book
- Biographical Sketches of Xaripu Labor Migrants
- 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Labor Migration
- Structural Perspectives
- Transnational Perspectives
- Internal Colonialism
- Moving beyond Traditional Perspectives
- Interactive Colonization
- Methods
- 3. A Social-Historical Context of Xaripu's Land Displacement and Labor Migration Experience
- Origins of Xaripus
- The Colonization of Michoacán (1521)
- Mexican Independence (1810)
- The Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Agrarian Reform in Mexico (1917-1930s)
- Bracero Period (1942-64)
- Post-Bracero Period (1964-1980s)
- Contextualizing Xaripus' Labor Migration in the History of Colonialism
- 4. The Logic of Colonialism in Modern Labor Relations
- Colonial Labor in the Fields
- Labor Conditions in California Agriculture
- Out of the Fields
- Race, Gender, and Colonialism in Modern Labor Relations
- 5. Haciendo Comunidad across Borders
- Contextualizing and Conceptualizing Xaripu Transnationalism
- Beyond Social Interaction: Convivir
- Convivencia
- Nepantla
- Empowerment
- The Challenge of Building a Cross-Border Community: Global Inequalities
- 6. The Family across Borders: Exploring Gaps in Perception and Practice of Gender Empowerment
- Perspectives on Gender Relations within Immigrant Families
- &iq;Quién Manda? (Who Has the Authority?)
- The Division of Household Labor
- The Impact of Transnationalism on Perceptions of Family and Gender Equity
- The Complexities of Gender Empowerment within the Family across Borders
- 7. A Pueblo's Search for Empowerment across Borders
- Appendix
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
