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Transborder Lives - Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Transborder Lives - Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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Lynn Stephen's innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans
from two towns in the state of Oaxaca-the Mixtec community of San
Agustin Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlan del
Valle-who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended
periods of work in California and Oregon. Demonstrating that the
line separating Mexico and the United States is only one among the
many borders that these migrants repeatedly cross (including
national, regional, cultural, ethnic, and class borders and
divisions), Stephen advocates an ethnographic framework focused on
transborder, rather than transnational, lives. Yet she does not
disregard the state: She assesses the impact migration has had on
local systems of government in both Mexico and the United States as
well as the abilities of states to police and affect transborder
communities.Stephen weaves the personal histories and narratives of
indigenous transborder migrants together with explorations of the
larger structures that affect their lives. Taking into account U.S.
immigration policies and the demands of both commercial agriculture
and the service sectors, she chronicles how migrants experience and
remember low-wage work in agriculture, landscaping, and childcare
and how gender relations in Oaxaca and the United States are
reconfigured by migration. She looks at the ways that racial and
ethnic hierarchies inherited from the colonial era-hierarchies that
debase Mexico's indigenous groups-are reproduced within
heterogeneous Mexican populations in the United States. Stephen
provides case studies of four grass-roots organizations in which
Mixtec migrants are involved, and she considers specific uses of
digital technology by transborder communities. Ultimately Stephen
demonstrates that transborder migrants are reshaping notions of
territory and politics by developing creative models of governance,
education, and economic development as well as ways of maintaining
their cultures and languages across geographic distances.
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