Women who stay behind : pedagogies of survival in rural transmigrant Mexico The book uncovers the social educational and cultural tools rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by migration. It addresses the material conditions that lead to the migration of adults from the area but at the core are the educational and personal endeavors of women to get ahead without the men in their families Provided by publisher Julieta : wife of a migrant manTransmigration transborder realities and the transformation of women who stay behind Andrea : hesitant and unappreciated activist Globalizing from below and the work of grassroots organizations Carolina : devoted mother and community leader Pedagogical spaces of convivencia and healing Jovita : caring and humble woman Campesina epistemologies and pedagogies of the spirit.