Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-267) and index.
Contents:
Technical note : methodology and methods -- Introduction. Words of passage : imagined lives, migration discourse, and national belonging -- So far from god : state-endorsed imaginaries of moral mobility in Mexico -- Private eyes, good girls : authoritative accounts and the social life of interviewing -- Diaspora at home : homebuilding and the failures of Mexican progress -- Possibility and perdition : discursive interaction and ethico-moral practice in traditionalist talk of migration -- Saints and suffering : critical appeal in relationships with the divine beyond -- Conclusion. Worlds of passage : moral mobility in global context.
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