Title: Transborder lives : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon /
Authors: Stephen, Lynn
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Indians of Mexico Mexico Oaxaca (State) Migrations.; Indians of Mexico Relocation West (U.S.); Indians of Mexico Employment West (U.S.); Frontier workers Mexico Oaxaca (State); Migrant labor Mexico Oaxaca (State); Emigration and immigration.; Oaxaca (Mexico : State) Emigration and immigration.; West (U.S.) Emigration and immigration.
Contents: Approaches to transborder lives -- Transborder communities in political and historical context : views from Oaxaca -- Mexicans in California and Oregon -- Transborder labor lives : harvesting, housecleaning, gardening, and childcare -- Surveillance and invisibility in the lives of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon -- Women's transborder lives : gender relations in work and families -- Navigating the borders of racial and ethnic hierarchies -- Grassroots organizing in transborder lives -- Transborder ethnic identity construction in life and on the net : e-mail and web page construction and use -- Conclusions -- Epilogue: Notes on collaborative research.