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Flexible families : Nicaraguan transnational families in Costa Rica
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Summary
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"How Nicaraguan immigrants to Costa Rica maintain family across borders"--Provided by publisher.
Details
- Creator
- Caitlin E. Fouratt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xi, 181 pages) : map
- data file
- ISBNs
- 0826504396, 0826504388, 9780826504395, 9780826504388, 9780826504364, 9780826504371
- OCLC
- on1292531020
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
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.