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Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon

Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon

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AnthropologyImmigration & RefugeesLatino Studies

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ISBN10: 0822339722
ISBN13: 9780822339724
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jun 13 2007
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Lynn Stephen's innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca--the Mixtec community of San Agustín Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitlán del Valle--who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and Oregon. Demonstrating that the line separating Mexico and the United States is only one among the many borders that these migrants repeatedly cross (including national, regional, cultural, ethnic, and class borders and divisions), Stephen advocates an ethnographic framework focused on transborder, rather than transnational, lives. Yet she does not disregard the state: She assesses the impact migration has had on local systems of government in both Mexico and the United States as well as the abilities of states to police and affect transborder communities.

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