Transborder lives : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon

Author(s)

• Stephen, Lynn

Bibliographic Information

Transborder lives : indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon

Lynn Stephen

Duke University Press, c2007

• : cloth : alk. paper
• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-358) and index

Contents of Works

• 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

• NCID: BA83296495
• ISBN:
  • 9780822339724
  • 9780822339908
• LCCN: 2006038001
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Durham
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 375 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F1210.1.O11
  • DC22 : 304.8089/91411
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State) -- Migrations
  • LCSH : Indians of Mexico -- Relocation -- West (U.S.)
  • LCSH : Indians of Mexico -- Employment -- West (U.S.)
  • LCSH : Frontier workers -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
  • LCSH : Migrant labor -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
  • LCSH : Oaxaca (Mexico : State) -- Emigration and immigration
  • LCSH : West (U.S.) -- Emigration and immigration