A01=Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
american history
Author_Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
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community
demographics
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egalitarian
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family life
gender roles
immigrant experience
immigration
labor
labor law
labor policy
lifestyle
mexican
mexican immigrants
mexico
migrant workers
migration
policymakers
settlement
social justice
sociology
starting over
undocumented workers
us history
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520075146
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 1994
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarges our understanding of these recently arrived Americans and uncovers the myriad ways that women and men recreate families and community institutions in a new land. Hondagneu-Sotelo argues that people do not migrate as a result of concerted household strategies, but as a consequence of negotiations often fraught with conflict in families and social networks. Migration and settlement transform long-held ideals and lifestyles. Traditional patterns are reevaluated, and new relationships - often more egalitarian - emerge. Women gain greater personal autonomy and independence as they participate in public life and gain access to both social and economic influence previously beyond their reach. Bringing to life the experiences of undocumented immigrants and delineating the key role of women in newly established communities, "Gendered Transitions" challenges conventional assumptions about gender and migration.
It will be essential reading for demographers, historians, sociologists, and policymakers. 'I've opened my eyes. Back there, they say 'no'. You marry, and no, you must stay home. Here, it's different. You marry, and you continue working. Back in Mexico, it's very different. There is very much machismo in those men' - A Mexican woman living in the United States.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California.
