Peruvian Lives across Borders - Power, Exclusion, and Home (Paperback)

In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland even as they profess their openness and tolerance. Alcalde details these processes and their origins in Peru's gender, racial, and class hierarchies. As she shows, the idea of return-whether desired or rejected, imagined or physical-spurs constructions of Peruvianness, belonging, and home. Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	M Cristina Alcalde
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-08346-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	0-252-08346-6
Barcode:	9780252083464

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