Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Stephen, Lynn.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

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Description

xxii, 375 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Indians of Mexico > Mexico > Oaxaca (State) > Migrations
• Migrant labor > Mexico > Oaxaca (State)
• Oaxaca (Mexico : State) > Emigration and immigration
• Frontier workers > Mexico > Oaxaca (State)
• Indians of Mexico > Relocation > West (U.S.)
• Indians of Mexico > Employment > West (U.S.)
• West (U.S.) > Emigration and immigration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index.

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.

Call Number

JGE 07-190

ISBN

• 9780822339724 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822339722 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780822339908 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0822339900 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006038001

OCLC

76820662

Author

Stephen, Lynn.

Title

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

Imprint

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index.

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Research Call Number

JGE 07-190