"I'm Neither Here nor There" explores how immigration influences
the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican
Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic
research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class
Mexican Americans and migrants to California's central coast
struggle for agency amid the region's deteriorating economic
conditions and the rise of racial nativism in the United States.
Zavella also examines tensions within the Mexican diaspora based on
differences in legal status, generation, gender, sexuality, and
language. She proposes "peripheral vision" to describe the sense of
displacement and instability felt by Mexican Americans and Mexicans
who migrate to the United States as well as by their family members
in Mexico.
Drawing on close interactions with Mexicans on both sides of the
border, Zavella examines migrant journeys to and within the United
States, gendered racialization, and exploitation at workplaces, and
the challenges that migrants face in forming and maintaining
families. As she demonstrates, the desires of migrants to express
their identities publicly and to establish a sense of cultural
memory are realized partly through Latin American and Chicano
protest music, and Mexican and indigenous folks songs played by
musicians and cultural activists.
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