Intimate Migrations : Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans / Deborah A. Boehm.
2012
E184.M5 B59 2016
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Intimate Migrations : Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans / Deborah A. Boehm.
Author
Boehm, Deborah A., author.
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9780814789858
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814789834.001.0001 doi
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E184.M5 B59 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.873072
Summary
In her research with transnational Mexicans, Deborah A. Boehm has often asked individuals: if there were no barriers to your movement between Mexico and the United States, where would you choose to live? Almost always, they desire the freedom to "come and go." Yet the barriers preventing such movement are many. Because of the United States' rigid immigration policies, Mexican immigrants often find themselves living long distances from family members and unable to easily cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Transnational Mexicans experience what Boehm calls "intimate migrations," flows that both shape and are structured by gendered and familial actions and interactions, but are always defined by the presence of the U.S. state. Intimate Migrations is based on over a decade of ethnographic research, focusing on Mexican immigrants with ties to a small, rural community in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí and several states in the U.S. West. By showing how intimate relations direct migration, and by looking at kin and gender relationships through the lens of illegality, Boehm sheds new light on the study of gender and kinship, as well as understandings of the state and transnational migration.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Placing Intimate Migrations
Part I. Transborder Families
2. Mitad Allá, Mitad Aquí/ Half There, Half Here
3. Family "Reunification"
Part II. Gendered Migrations
4. ¡Ya Soy Hombre y Mujer!/ Now I Am a Man and a Woman!
5. Gendered Borderlands
Part III. Children on the Move
6. Por Mis Hijos/For My Children
7. Here-Not Here
Conclusion
Postscript: Caught
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Placing Intimate Migrations
Part I. Transborder Families
2. Mitad Allá, Mitad Aquí/ Half There, Half Here
3. Family "Reunification"
Part II. Gendered Migrations
4. ¡Ya Soy Hombre y Mujer!/ Now I Am a Man and a Woman!
5. Gendered Borderlands
Part III. Children on the Move
6. Por Mis Hijos/For My Children
7. Here-Not Here
Conclusion
Postscript: Caught
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author