Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacan - From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement

Informationen zum Autor Xochitl Bada is an assistant professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is co-author of Context Matters: Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement in Nine U.S. Cities and her work has appeared in many journals and essay collections Klappentext Chicago is home to the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the US! yet the activities of this community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and academia. In this groundbreaking new book! Xóchitl Bada takes us inside one of the most vital parts of Chicago's Mexican immigrant community - its many hometown associations. Filled with vivid observations and original interviews! this title gives voice to an under-represented community and sheds light on an under explored form of global activism.

Product details

• Authors: Xaochitl Bada, Xochitl Bada, Xóchitl Bada
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 18 to 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2014
• EAN: 9780813564937
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6493-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Latinidad: Transnational Cultu; Latinidad: Transnational Cultu
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology