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Informationen zum Autor Lynn Stephen is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of "Zapotec Women: Gender! Class! and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca!" also published by Duke University Press; "Zapata Lives! Histories and Cultural Politics in Southern Mexico"; and "Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below." Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations and Tables vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xix 1. Approaches to Transborder Lives 1 2. Transborder Communities in Political and Historical Context: Views from Oaxaca 35 3. Mexicans in California and Oregon 63 4. Transborder Labor Lives: Harvesting, Housecleaning, Gardening, and Childcare 95 5. Surveillance and Invisibility in the Lives of Indigenous Farmworkers in Oregon 143 6. Women’s Transborder Lives: Gender Relations in Work and Families 178 7. Navigating the Borders of Racial and Ethnic Hierarchies 209 8. Grassroots Organizing in Transborder Lives 231 9. Transborder Ethnic Identity Construction in Life and on the Net: E-Mail and Web Page Construction and Use 274 Conclusions 309 Epilogue: Notes on Collaborative Research 321 Notes 327 Works Cited 335 Index 359
