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In From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders, Norma
Fuentes-Mayorga compares the immigration and integration
experiences of Dominican and Mexican women in New York City,
a traditional destination for Dominicans but a relatively new
one for Mexicans. Her book documents the significance of women-led
migration within an increasingly racialized context and
underscores the contributions women make to their communities of
origin and of settlement. Fuentes-Mayorga’s research is timely,
especially against the backdrop of policy debates about the
future of family reunification laws and the unprecedented
immigration of women and minors from Latin America, many of whom
seek human rights protection or to reunite with families in
the US. From Homemakers to Breadwinners to Community Leaders
provides a compelling look at the suffering of migrant
mothers and the mourning of family separation, but also at
the agency and contributions that women make with their
imported human capital and remittances to the receiving and
sending community. Ultimately the book contributes further
understanding to the heterogeneity of Latin American
immigration and highlights the social mobility of Afro-Caribbean
and indigenous migrant women in New York.Â
The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance
of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse
immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can
both unite and divide. The individual scholars contributing to this
volume model, deploy, and explain notions of 'borders' and
'boundaries' in various ways, but collectively they emphasize the
fluidity of racial and ethnic identities that are shaped,
negotiated, and contested in specific contexts and situations.
Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries also captures the range of
spaces in which ethnicity and race become salient-the university,
the immigrant enclave, the detention center, the work place, the
nightclub, and even the trans-Atlantic passage. This
interdisciplinary work features essays on a diverse range of
immigrant populations from past to present and will interest
scholars from across disciplines.
The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance
of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse
immigrant populations in the United States. Race and ethnicity can
both unite and divide. The individual scholars contributing to this
volume model, deploy, and explain notions of "borders" and
"boundaries" in various ways, but collectively they emphasize the
fluidity of racial and ethnic identities that are shaped,
negotiated, and contested in specific contexts and situations.
Constructing Borders/Crossing Boundaries also captures the range of
spaces in which ethnicity and race become salient-the university,
the immigrant enclave, the detention center, the work place, the
nightclub, and even the trans-Atlantic passage. This
interdisciplinary work features essays on a diverse range of
immigrant populations from past to present and will interest
scholars from across disciplines.
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