Divided by Borders
Regular price
€92.99
A01=Joanna Dreby
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
america
american border
Author_Joanna Dreby
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBTB
Category=JBFH
Category=JBSL
Category=JFFN
Category=JFSL
Category=JFSL4
Category=JHBK
Category=NHTB
children of migrants
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
discussion books
divided families
economics
emigration immigration
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
family
family issues
family ties
global economy
immigrants and immigration
immigration and immigrants
Language_English
mexican children
mexican families
mexican migrants
mexicans
mexico
migrant parents
migrant workers
overcoming adversity
PA=Temporarily unavailable
parents and children
parents sacrifices
Price_€50 to €100
PS=Active
relocation
social science
softlaunch
thought provoking
transnational families
united states
Product details
- ISBN 9780520266605
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents, migration is a sacrifice. What do parents expect to accomplish by dividing their families across borders? How do families manage when they are living apart? More importantly, do parents' relocations yield the intended results? Probing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, Joanna Dreby offers an up-close and personal account of the lives of families divided by borders. What she finds is that the difficulties endured by transnational families make it nearly impossible for parents' sacrifices to result in the benefits they expect. Yet, paradoxically, these hardships reinforce family members' commitments to each other. A story both of adversity and the intensity of family ties, "Divided by Borders" is an engaging and insightful investigation of the ways Mexican families struggle and ultimately persevere in a global economy.
Joanna Dreby is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Kent State University.
