Transborder lives
Subtitle: indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon
By: Lynn Stephen.
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780822339724; 9780822339908
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); Oaxaca (Mexico : State) -- Emigration and immigration; West (U.S.) -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaches to transborder lives; title: Transborder communities in political and historical context : views from Oaxaca; title: Mexicans in California and Oregon; title: Transborder labor lives : harvesting, housecleaning, gardening, and childcare; title: Surveillance and invisibility in the lives of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon; title: Women's transborder lives : gender relations in work and families; title: Navigating the borders of racial and ethnic hierarchies; title: Grassroots organizing in transborder lives; title: Transborder ethnic identity construction in life and on the net : e-mail and webpage construction and use; title: Conclusions; title: Epilogue: Notes on collaborative research.