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Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration - Engendering Transnational Ties (Paperback)
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Mexican Women and the Other Side of Immigration - Engendering Transnational Ties (Paperback)
Series: Chicana Matters
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Weaving narratives with gendered analysis and historiography of
Mexicans in the Midwest, Mexican Women and the Other Side of
Immigration examines the unique transnational community created
between San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Jalisco, and Detroit, Michigan, in
the last three decades of the twentieth century, asserting that
both the community of origin and the receiving community are
integral to an immigrant's everyday life, though the manifestations
of this are rife with contradictions. Exploring the challenges
faced by this population since the inception of the Bracero Program
in 1942 in constantly re-creating, adapting, accommodating,
shaping, and creating new meanings of their environments, Luz Maria
Gordillo emphasizes the gender-specific aspects of these
situations. While other studies of Mexican transnational identity
focus on social institutions, Gordillo's work introduces the
concept of transnational sexualities, particularly the social
construction of working-class sexuality. Her findings indicate that
many female San Ignacians shattered stereotypes, transgressing
traditionally male roles while their husbands lived abroad. When
the women themselves immigrated as well, these transgressions
facilitated their adaptation in Detroit. Placed within the larger
context of globalization, Mexican Women and the Other Side of
Immigration is a timely excavation of oral histories, archival
documents, and the remnants of three decades of memory.
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