Smith, Robert C.,   1964- <br/><br/>
Mexican New York   transnational lives o f new immigrants /   [electronic resource] : 
Robert Courtney Smith. 
 - Berkeley :   University of California Press,   c2006. 
 - x, 375 p. :   ill., maps ;   24 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-349) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/> Electronic text and image data. <br/> Ann Arbor, Mich. : <br/> University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, <br/> 2014. <br/> Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. <br/> ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) <br/> Mode of a ccess: Intranet. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Mexican Americans-- Social conditio ns.-- New York (State)-- New York<br/> Immigrants-- Social conditions.-- New York (State)-- New York<br/> Transnationalism.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/> United States-- Relations-- Mexico.<br/> Mexico-- Relations-- United States.<br/> New York (N.Y.)-- Emigration and immigration.<br/> Puebla (Mexico : State)-- Emigration and immigration.<br/> New York (N.Y.)-- Ethnic relations.