Transformations of la familia on the U.S.-Mexico border
By: edited by Raquel R. Márquez and Harriett D. Romo.
Contributors: Márquez, Raquel R.; Romo, Harriett.
Series: Latino perspectives
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780268035099
Subjects: Family -- Mexican-American Border Region; Mexican American women -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions; Women immigrants -- Mexican-American Border Region -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A demographic profile of children and families in the U.S.-Mexico border region / Yolanda C. Padilla and Ana Marie Argilagos; title: An overview of children and youth on the northern Mexican border / Catalina Palmer; title: The extended border: a case study of San Antonio as a transnational city / Harriett D. Romo; title: The complex picture of cities near the U.S.-Mexico border: the case of southern California / Belinda I. Reyes and Amanda G. Bailey; title: Maquiladora or cross-border commute: the employment of members of households in five Mexican border cities / Marie-Laure Coubes; title: Transborder interactions and transnational processes in the border community of Laredo, Texas / Raquel R. Marquez; title: Coming of age across borders: family, gender, and place in the lives of second-generation transnational Mexicanas / Patricia Sanchez; title: "I'm bien pocha": borderlands epistemologies and the teaching of english in Mexico / Mary A. Petron; title: The real and the symbolic: visualizing border spaces / Amelia Malagamba-Anstegui; title: Latina entrepreneurship in the borderlands: family well-being and poverty reduction policies / Barbara J. Robles; title: Public policy changes on the U.S.-Mexico border / Irasema Coronado.