Mexican New York [electronic resource] : transnational lives o f new immigrants / Robert Courtney Smith.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.Description: x, 375 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSubject(s): - Mexican Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditio ns
- 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-349) and index.
Transnational life in ethnographic perspective -- Dual contexts for transnational life -- "Los ausentes siempre presentes" : imagining and making a local-level transnational political community -- The defeat of Don Victorio and why it matters : transnationalization, democratizatio n, and regime change on local, state, and federal levels -- Gender stra tegies, settlement, and transnational life -- "In Ticuani, he goes craz y" : the second generation renegotiates gender in Ticuani -- "Padre Jes us is our protector" : adolescence, religion, and social location in Ne w York and Ticuani -- "I'll go back next year" : local-level transnatio nal life across the life course -- Defending your name in New York and Ticuani : the roots and transnationalization of Mexican gangs -- "Why y ou gotta mess up a good place?" : returning to a changed Ticuani.
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of a ccess: Intranet.
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