Beyond the Borderlands [electronic resource] : Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico
Lattanzi Shutika, Debra.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
2011.
Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the ""Mushroom Capital of the World."" In a highly readable account based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and their American neighbors, Debra Lattanzi Shutika explore
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Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; One: Introduction, New Borders and Destinations; Two: "I Give Thanks to God, After That, the United States", Everyday Life In Textitlán; Three: La Casa Vacía, Meanings and Memories in Abandoned Immigrant Houses; Four: In the Shadows and Out, Mexican Kennett Square; Five: Bridging the Community, Nativism, Activism, and the Politics of Belonging; Six: There and Back Again, The Pilgrimage of Return Migration; Seven: The Ambivalent Welcome, Cinco De Mayo and the Performance of Local Identity and Ethnic Relations; Epilogue; Notes; References; Index
Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the ""Mushroom Capital of the World."" In a highly readable account based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and their American neighbors, Debra Lattanzi Shutika explore
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Guanajuato (Mexico : State) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Guanajuato (Mexico: State) - Emigration and immigration - Social aspects.
Kennett Square (Pa.) - Ethnic relations.
Kennett Square (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations.
Mexican Americans - Cultural assimilation - Pennsylvania - Kennett Square.
Mexican Americans - Pennsylvania - Kennett Square - Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Kennett Square -- Ethnic identity.
Mexican Americans --Cultural assimilation -- Pennsylvania -- Kennett Square.
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans
Regions & Countries - Americas
History & Archaeology
United States Local History