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Unable to secure a full livelihood in either Mexico or the United
States, migrants from the rural village of Napizaro in central
Mexico must extend their families, and their community, across the
border. The lives of Napizarenos demonstrate the difficulties of
reproduction in a transnational context, calling into question the
way we think about households, families, and communities. La
Casa de Mis Sueños examines the efforts of villagers from
NapÃzaro to build their dream houses in Mexico through
participation in transnational migration. New house designs reshape
the spatial ordering of everyday life and are part of the
recreation of social space in a changing economic and moral
landscape. These changes have engendered conflict as migration
usurps traditional routes to prosperity and success and as migrant
houses become both the locus of growing consumerism and a site for
heavily charged and contested ideas about family and community.
This book is more than an engaging account of the realities that
pervade one small community. It is an examination of the ways in
which global processes penetrate the local, the daily, and the
personal in rural Mexico. Above all, it asserts the power of place
as constitutive of the ways in which people create meaning in their
lives.
Unable to secure a full livelihood in either Mexico or the United
States, migrants from the rural village of Napizaro in central
Mexico must extend their families, and their community, across the
border. The lives of Napizarenos demonstrate the difficulties of
reproduction in a transnational context, calling into question the
way we think about households, families, and communities. La
Casa de Mis Sueños examines the efforts of villagers from
NapÃzaro to build their dream houses in Mexico through
participation in transnational migration. New house designs reshape
the spatial ordering of everyday life and are part of the
recreation of social space in a changing economic and moral
landscape. These changes have engendered conflict as migration
usurps traditional routes to prosperity and success and as migrant
houses become both the locus of growing consumerism and a site for
heavily charged and contested ideas about family and community.
This book is more than an engaging account of the realities that
pervade one small community. It is an examination of the ways in
which global processes penetrate the local, the daily, and the
personal in rural Mexico. Above all, it asserts the power of place
as constitutive of the ways in which people create meaning in their
lives.
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