Beyond the borderlands: : migration and belonging in the United States and Mexico

• Autores: Melany M. Bowman
• Localización: The Journal of American Folklore, ISSN-e 1535-1882, Vol. 127, Nº. 505, 2014, págs. 326-328
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • [...]the townspeople of kennett Square seek to affirm their reputation as a pro- gressive community while maintaining their cultural dominance in an emerging mexican population. throughout the book, lattanzi Shutika attempts to answer how these negotia- tions are reconciled. lattanzi Shutika's access to the mexican populations in Pennsylvania and mexico pro- vide a compelling ethnographic portrait of mexican migrants living within the context of dual countries. in the book's introduction, the author describes how a short term research project evolved into a 10-year study that spanned two nations, resulting in a comprehen- sive study of mexican migrants who leave fam- ily and friends in mexico to pursue a better fi- nancial future in the community of kennett Square, Pennsylvania. chapter 2, "'i give thanks to God, after that, the united States': everyday life in textitlán," uses historical data and statistics to provide a demographic profile of the textitlán popula- tion. lattanzi Shutika also provides readers with valuable personal observations of the living conditions in textitlán.