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Mexican New York : transnational lives of new immigrants
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- Creator
- Robert Courtney Smith
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- x, 375 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520244125, 9780520244122, 9786612763205, 0520244133, 142373145X, 0520938607, 9780520244139, 9780520938601, 1598758047, 9781598758047, 9781423731450, 1282763202
- OCLC
- ocn437154744, ocm57549762, ocm62208633, on1110713579
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-349) and index.
- Transnational life in ethnographic perspective -- Dual contexts for transnational life -- "Los ausentes siempre presentes" : making a local-level transnational political community -- The defeat of Don Victorio : transnationalization, democratization, and political change -- Gender strategies, settlement, and transnational life in the first generation -- "In Ticuani, he goes crazy" : the second generation renegotiates gender -- "Padre Jesus, protect me" : adolescence, religion, and social location -- "I'll go back next year" : transnational life across the life course -- Defending your name : the roots and transnationalization of Mexican gangs -- Returning to a changed Ticuani
Subjects
- Mexican Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
- Transnationalism.
- United States -- Relations -- Mexico.
- Mexico -- Relations -- United States.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration.
- Puebla (Mexico : State) -- Emigration and immigration.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations.