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Author Stephen, Lynn, author.

Title Transborder lives : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon / Lynn Stephen
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 375 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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
Summary Explores how two populations of indigenous Mexican migrants are using their multi-layered identities and bi-national labor experiences to organize for economic and political change
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-358) and index
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SUBJECT Arbeit, ... gnd
Subject 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)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Emigration and immigration
Frontier workers
Migrant labor
Migration
SUBJECT Oaxaca (Mexico : State) -- Emigration and immigration
West (U.S.) -- Emigration and immigration
Subject Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
West United States
Oaxaca Staat
USA -- Weststaaten
Indianer.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006038001
ISBN 9780822389965
0822389967