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

Author/creator Stephen, Lynn
Format Electronic
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press,
Descriptionxxii, 375 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects
Indians of Mexico--Mexico. --Oaxaca (State). --Migrations.
Indians of Mexico--Relocation. --West (U.S.).
Indians of Mexico--Employment. --West (U.S.).
Frontier workers--Mexico. --Oaxaca (State).
Migrant labor--Mexico. --Oaxaca (State).
Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--Emigration and immigration.
West (U.S.)--Emigration and immigration.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006038001
ISBN9780822339724 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822339722 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822339908 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822339900 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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