The wall between us
Subtitle: a Mixteco migrant community community in Mexico and the United States
By: edited by David Scott Fitzgerald, Jorge Hernández Díaz, David Keyes
Publisher: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego
Published: 2013
Place of publication: San Diego, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781481946933
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Mexicans; Illegal aliens
Description: "This volume provides a vivid portrait of a transnational migrant community anchored in both the remote Mixteca region of Oaxaca and the San Diego metropolitan area. Drawing on surveys and interviews with migrants and potential migrants conducted by a binational research team in 2007-2008, the contributors show how the Oaxaca-based and the California-based natives of the town of San Miguel Tlacotepec have built parallel communities separated by an increasingly fortified international border. Their findings shed important new light on a range of vital issues in US immigration policy, including the efficacy and impact of border enforcement, how undocumented status affects health and education outcomes, and how modern telecommunications are shaping transborder migrant networks."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical (pages 167-168) references.
Table of contents: title: San Miguel Tlacotepec as a community of emigration / Bribrilia Cota-Cabrera [and others]; title: Strategies for success: border crossing in an era of heightened security / Kristen Parks [and others]; title: Setting down roots: Tlacotepense settlement in the United States / Clare Appleby, Nancy Moreno, and Arielle Smith; title: Long-distance lives: international migrant networks and technology in the United States and Mexico / Leah Muse-Orlinoff [and others]; title: Going to school, going to El Norte: migrations' impact on Tlacotepense education / Adam Sawyer [and others]; title: Lucharle por la vida: the impact of migration on health / Whitney L. Duncan [and others]; title: Between here and there: ethnicity, civic participation, and migration in San Miguel Tlacotepec / Elizabeth Perry [and others]; title: The economics of migration: agriculture, remittances, and investment / Emily Erickson, Tanya Menéndez, and Peter Nichols.