Gendered Transitions - Mexican Experiences of Immigration

Informationen zum Autor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Klappentext "Edited by a leading pioneer of immigration studies! this volume offers some of the latest and most brilliant thinking about what migrant men and women bring to the United States! leave behind and create anew. This is a must read for those interested in immigration! gender! and the many meanings of life."-Arlie Russell Hochschild! co-editor with Barbara Ehrenreich of Global Woman: Nannies! Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy "Moving between individual decisions and broad political and economic forces! and focusing on family and community in Mexico and the U.S.! Hondagneu-Sotelo's pathbreaking book casts new light on the centrality of gender for patterns of migration. A superb intersection of ethnography! history and theory."-Michael Burawoy! University of California! Berkeley "A path-breaking book combining the study of gender with immigration to show how Mexican women and men continually reinvent themselves and their family lives in the U.S. Gendered Transitions offers rich insights into the complexities of women's settlement experiences and marks a new era in immigration studies."-Maxine Baca Zinn! Michigan State University Zusammenfassung The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the past has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. This work argues that people do not migrate as a result of concerted household strategies, but as a consequence of negotiations often fraught with conflict in families and social networks. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Table of Study Participants 1. Immigration! Gender! and Settlement 2. The History of Mexican Undocumented Settlement in the United States 3. The Oakview Barrio 4. Gendered Transitions 5. Reconstructing Gender through Immigration and Settlement 6. Women Consolidating Settlement 7. Gendered Immigration Notes References Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Pierrette Hondagneu-sotel, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette A. Hondagneu-Sotelo
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.10.1994
• EAN: 9780520075146
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07514-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, Mexico, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Gender studies, gender groups, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples