Title: Women Who Stay Behind
Description: Women Who Stay Behind examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative, research, and theory, Ruth Trinidad Galván presents a hopeful picture of what is traditionally viewed as the abject circumstances of poor and working-class people in Mexico who are forced to migrate to survive.
Subjects: Migration, immigration & emigration, Rural women, Social conditions, Wives, Effect of husband's employment on, Foreign workers, Family relationships, Immigrants, Mexicans, Foreign workers, mexican, Immigrants, united states, Mexicans, united states