| Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico Contributor(s): Shutika, Debra Lattanzi (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520269594 ISBN-13: 9780520269590 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 2010053180 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Pennsylvania - Cultural Region - Mexican - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural - Ethnic Orientation - Chicano - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Over the last three decades, migration from Mexico to the United States has moved beyond the borderlands to diverse communities across the country, with the most striking transformations in American suburbs and small towns. This study explores the challenges encountered by Mexican families as they endeavor to find their place in the U.S. by focusing on Kennett Square, a small farming village in Pennsylvania known as the "Mushroom Capital of the World." In a highly readable account based on extensive fieldwork among Mexican migrants and their American neighbors, Debra Lattanzi Shutika explores the issues of belonging and displacement that are central concerns for residents in communities that have become new destinations for Mexican settlement. Beyond the Borderlands also completes the circle of migration by following migrant families as they return to their hometown in Mexico, providing an illuminating perspective of the tenuous lives of Mexicans residing in, but not fully part of, two worlds. |