Mexican New York
Subtitle: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 14, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780520244122
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Sociology - General; New York; Immigrants; Social Science; Sociology; New York (State); Anthropology - General; Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Sociology / General; Ethnic Studies - General; Transnationalism; Latin America - General; Mexican Americans; Social conditions
First sentence: Linda's wonder at actually being in the town I call Ticuani-a small municipio (country) of less than two thousand people in southern Puebla, in the Mixteca region of Mexico-is not just an enthusiastic teenager's response to a favorite vacation spot: it attests to Ticuani's central place in her social world.