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Beyond Cannery Row - Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99 (Paperback)
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Beyond Cannery Row - Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99 (Paperback)
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Presenting a nuanced story of women, migration, community,
industry, and civic life at the turn of the twentieth century,
Carol Lynn McKibben's Beyond Cannery Row analyzes the processes of
migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in
Western Sicily to Monterey, California--and sometimes back again.
McKibben's analysis of gender and gender roles shows that it was
the women in this community who had the insight, the power, and the
purpose to respond and even prosper amid changing economic
conditions. Vividly evoking the immigrants' everyday experiences
through first-person accounts and detailed description, McKibben
demonstrates that the cannery work done by Sicilian immigrant women
was crucial in terms of the identity formation and community
development. These changes allowed their families to survive the
challenges of political conflicts over citizenship in World War II
and intermarriage with outsiders throughout the migration
experience. The women formed voluntary associations and celebrated
festas that effectively linked them with each other and with their
home villages in Sicily. Continuous migration created a strong
sense of transnationalism among Sicilians in Monterey, which has
enabled them to continue as a viable ethnic community today.
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