Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Migrating to Father, Migrating to Provide
Defining the Problem Space
Intimate Terrorism del Norte…y mexicana
Intersecting Fields: Perspectives on Fathering at a Distance
The ‘Father as Provider’ Construct
The Father’s Contribution
Immigrant Fathers Living with Their Children
Transnational Fatherhood
Child Outcomes
The Fathers in This Study
Learning from padres mexicanos: A Pondering of Selves
Who Are They?
Four Fathers en el Norte
Cinco papás en México [Five Fathers in México]
Theoretical Frames
Representation and Translation
Testimonio: Pasar la frontera
Testimonio as Method
Testimonio: La travesía [Testimonio: The Crossing]
The Fathers in North Carolina: The Everyday Practice of Being an Immigrant: Sign Reading, Meta-Ideologizing, and Differential Consciousness
Drugs in México
Education in México
Sign Reading
Meta-Ideologizing
Differential Consciousness
Methodology of the Oppressed (MotO) as Taken up by the U.S.-Based Fathers in North Carolina
Facing an Acute Family or Financial Crisis
Meta-Ideology: Work as Love
Para seguir adelante [To Keep Moving Forward, to Progress]
Engaging Differential Consciousness to Move and Stay Ahead
Para un mejor vivir [For a Better Life]
Sign-Reading Both Sides of Fathering at a Distance
Working Skillfully in the New Latino South
Shifting Gears to Stay Employed
Fathering without Borders: The Undocumented Mexican Male Immigrant Worker Status as Fathering
Fathering Dispositions, Practices, and Strategies
An Insider/Outsider in México: Welcomed as familia, Schooled as a Newcomer
Valley Girl
Getting There
Héroes de la Independencia Middle School
Secundaria Niños Héroes/Niños Heroes Middle School
Political Economy in Person: The Fathers in México
Lessons from the Fathers in México
Political Economy as Lived Experience
The Mothers and the Children: Las plegarias
Las madres
La plegaria de los niños
Intimate Terrorism: The State as Assassin of Families’ Dreams and Children’s Futures
Authorization from La Jornada
References
Index.