Living together across borders : communicative care in transnational Salvadoran families /
"Living together across borders: Separated Salvadoran families and the power of everyday conversation presents a multisited ethnography of communication in extended families living stretched between El Salvador and the United States. The book examines seemingly mundane conversational practices-...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in the anthropology of language.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Living together across borders: Separated Salvadoran families and the power of everyday conversation presents a multisited ethnography of communication in extended families living stretched between El Salvador and the United States. The book examines seemingly mundane conversational practices-such as sending greetings, negotiating remittances, and reminiscing together-that are central to family life across borders. It underscores the consequentiality of these linguistic practices by tracing how they are shaped by and re-shape gendered and generational norms of family care, as well as how they are tied to Salvadoran histories of migration, violence, and poverty, which are powerfully influenced by U.S. economic and foreign policy. The book demonstrates that these communicative practices bring inequities between global North and South into family life by continually reproducing distinctions between relatives in El Salvador and those living in the United States. At the same time, however, transnational families use cross-border communication to forge convivencia (living-together) at-a-distance. Although these relational moments of cross-border connection are fleeting, their impacts endure, laying the foundation for the ongoing material and economic provisioning necessary to family survival. Through cross-border conversations, families nurture intergenerational relations that sustain the family over the years despite ongoing separation"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 220 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197755763 9780197755754 0197755755 9780197755778 0197755771 9780197755761 |