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Flexible families : Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fouratt, Caitlin, 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Immigrant families > Nicaragua.
Women immigrants > Family relationships > Nicaragua.
Grandmothers > Family relationships > Nicaragua.
Children of immigrants > Family relationships > Nicaragua.
Fatherless families > Nicaragua.
Grandparents as parents > Nicaragua.
Intergenerational relations > Nicaragua.
Transnationalism > Social aspects > Nicaragua.
Nicaragua > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Nicaragua > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. "The Family is a Little Society"
  • State, family, and solidarity in the Nicaraguan nation
  • Locked up and waiting
  • Single mothers and absent fathers
  • Reconfiguring relationships across borders
  • Mamitas: Grandmothering in transnational families
  • "I eat all my money here": Remittances in transnational family life
  • Returns and reunions.