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Title:

Transformations of la familia on the U.S.-Mexico border / edited by Raquel R. M©Łrquez and Harriett D. Romo.

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xiii, 321 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Families--Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican American women--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.
Women immigrants--Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

M©Łrquez, Raquel R.
Romo, Harriett

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A demographic profile of children and families in the U.S.-Mexico border region / Yolanda C. Padilla and Ana Marie Argilagos -- An overview of children and youth on the northern Mexican border / Catalina Palmer -- The extended border : a case study of San Antonio as a transnational city / Harriett D. Romo -- The complex picture of cities near the U.S.-Mexico border : the case of southern California / Belinda I. Reyes and Amanda G. Bailey -- Maquiladora or cross-border commute : the employment of members of households in five Mexican border cities / Marie-Laure Coub©·s -- Transborder interactions and transnational processes in the border community of Laredo, Texas / Raquel R. M©Łrquez -- Coming of age across borders: family, gender, and place in the lives of second-generation transnational Mexicanas / Patricia S©Łnchez -- "I'm bien pocha": borderlands epistemologies and the teaching of English in Mexico / Mary A. Petron -- The real and the symbolic : visualizing border spaces / Amelia Malagamba-Ans©đtegui -- Latina entrepreneurship in the borderlands : family well-being and poverty reduction policies / B©Łrbara J. Robles -- Public policy changes on the U.S.-Mexico border / Irasema Coronado.

Series:

Latino perspectives

ISBN:

0268035091 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268035099 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)181599764

LCCN:

2008010456

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)