Transformations of la familia on the U.S.-Mexico border / edited by Raquel R. M©Łrquez and Harriett D. Romo.

Other author M©Łrquez, Raquel R.
Other author Romo, Harriett.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,
Descriptionxiii, 321 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Border and Migration Studies Online (Text)
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SeriesLatino perspectives
Contents A demographic profile of children and families in the U.S.-Mexico border region / Yolanda C. Padilla and Ana Marie Argilagos -- An overview of children and youth on the northern Mexican border / Catalina Palmer -- The extended border: a case study of San Antonio as a transnational city / Harriett D. Romo -- The complex picture of cities near the U.S.-Mexico border: the case of southern California / Belinda I. Reyes and Amanda G. Bailey -- Maquiladora or cross-border commute: the employment of members of households in five Mexican border cities / Marie-Laure Coubes -- Transborder interactions and transnational processes in the border community of Laredo, Texas / Raquel R. Marquez -- Coming of age across borders: family, gender, and place in the lives of second-generation transnational Mexicanas / Patricia Sanchez -- "I'm bien pocha": borderlands epistemologies and the teaching of english in Mexico / Mary A. Petron -- The real and the symbolic: visualizing border spaces / Amelia Malagamba-Anstegui -- Latina entrepreneurship in the borderlands: family well-being and poverty reduction policies / Barbara J. Robles -- Public policy changes on the U.S.-Mexico border / Irasema Coronado.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2008010456
ISBN9780268035099 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0268035091 (pbk. : alk. paper)