The Last Best Place?
Subtitle: Gender, Family, and Migration in the New West
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Aug 27, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780804791656
Description: Though Mexican migrants have worked on Montana's ranches and farms since the 1920s, increasing numbers of migrant families--both documented and undocumented--are moving to the area to support its growing construction and service sectors. The Last Best Place? asks us to consider the multiple racial and class-related barriers that Mexican migrants must negotiate in the unique context of Montana's rural gentrification. These daily life struggles and inter-group power dynamics are deftly examined through extensive interviews and ethnography, as are the ways gender structures inequalities within migrant families and communities. But Leah Schmalzbauer's research extends even farther to highlight the power of place and demonstrate how Montana's geography and rurality intersect with race, class, gender, family, illegality, and transnationalism to affect migrants' well-being and aspirations.
Notes: Source title: The Last Best Place?: Gender, Family, and Migration in the New West