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Transborder lives : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stephen, Lynn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Oaxaca (State) > Migrations.
Indians of Mexico > Relocation > West (U.S.)
Indians of Mexico > Employment > West (U.S.)
Frontier workers > Mexico > Oaxaca (State)
Migrant labor > Mexico > Oaxaca (State)
Oaxaca (Mexico : State) > Emigration and immigration.
West (U.S.) > Emigration and immigration.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Approaches to transborder lives
  • Transborder communities in political and historical context : views from Oaxaca
  • Mexicans in California and Oregon
  • Transborder labor lives : harvesting, housecleaning, gardening, and childcare
  • Surveillance and invisibility in the lives of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon
  • Women's transborder lives : gender relations in work and families
  • Navigating the borders of racial and ethnic hierarchies
  • Grassroots organizing in transborder lives
  • Transborder ethnic identity construction in life and on the net : e-mail and web page construction and use
  • Conclusions
  • Epilogue: Notes on collaborative research.