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Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader
Segura
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Description for Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader
Paperback. Women's migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This title analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Editor(s): Segura, Denise A.; Zavella, Patricia. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 616 pages, 11 illustrations, 12 tables, 5 graphs. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; GTB; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 37. Weight in Grams: 835.
Women’s migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have not been well examined in migration studies until now. This pathbreaking reader analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Scholars across diverse disciplines interrogate the socioeconomic forces that propel Mexican women into the migrant stream and shape their employment options; the changes that these women are making in homes, families, and communities; and the “structural violence” that they confront in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands ... Read more
Women’s migration within Mexico and from Mexico to the United States is increasing; nearly as many women as men are migrating. This development gives rise to new social negotiations, which have not been well examined in migration studies until now. This pathbreaking reader analyzes how economically and politically displaced migrant women assert agency in everyday life. Scholars across diverse disciplines interrogate the socioeconomic forces that propel Mexican women into the migrant stream and shape their employment options; the changes that these women are making in homes, families, and communities; and the “structural violence” that they confront in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
616
Condition
New
Series
Latin America Otherwise
Number of Pages
616
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822341185
SKU
V9780822341185
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Ref
99-1
About Segura
Denise A. Segura is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Reviews for Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Reader
“A deeply felt and thoroughly researched work, Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands brings together some of the most important feminist voices in the field of immigration and transnational studies. I think Gloria Anzaldúa would have been proud to see how the authors of this book took her concept of the borderlands and grounded it ethnographically in the sorrows, ... Read more