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Author:

Andrews, Abigail, author.

Title:

Undocumented politics : place, gender, and the pathways of Mexican migrants / Abigail Leslie Andrews.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xv, 286 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Zapotec Indians--Oaxaca (State)--Oaxaca (State)--Case studies.
Mixtec Indians--Oaxaca (State)--Oaxaca (State)--Case studies.
Zapotec Indians--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Case studies.
Mixtec Indians--San Diego County--San Diego County--Case studies.
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration
Mixtec Indians.
Zapotec Indians.
California--Los Angeles
California--San Diego County
Mexico--Oaxaca (State)
Case studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Legacies of (in)equity -- "Illegality" under two local modes of control -- Stoicism and striving in the face of exclusion -- Transnational fights, rifts, and ties -- Pathways to hometown change -- Conclusion -- Methodological appendix : listening to difference.

Summary:

"Undocumented politics is a poignant ethnography of gender and political agency in North America's most excluded migrant communities. Author Abigail Andrews takes us from the indigenous villages of Oaxaca, Mexico into the lives of undocumented families in the barrios of Southern California and back. Drawing on two years of transnational fieldwork, archives, surveys, and the voices of migrants themselves, she compares the histories of two very distinct transnational communities. The book reveals how migrants' cross-border struggles are shaped by local practices of control, in both the places they live and the places they leave behind"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0520299965
9780520299962
0520299973
9780520299979

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1023826438

LCCN:

2018004217

Locations:

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