Los Yarderos
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anti-immigrant discourse
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biopower
Blackness
border theory
Borders
capital
capitalism
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color inspections
colorism
criminalization
deportability
deportation
dispossession
el Norte
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ethonography
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Midwest
Migrants
mugging
neoliberalism
power
race
racialization
subjectivity
working class
Product details
- ISBN 9780252088667
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 2025
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Migrants from the Mexican states of Zacatecas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, and MichoacÁn have become an important presence in Chicago and the Midwest. Many hold jobs as yarderos gardening, caring for lawns, and doing other landscaping work.
Sergio Lemus explores the lives of these migrants and looks at the struggles they face as they work to make the city their home. Drawing on fieldwork in South Chicago, Lemus tells the stories of first and second-generation yarderos and discusses the historical, economic, cultural, and political ramifications they face as they acquire their working-class identity. Lemus’s compassionate portrait places them within America’s ongoing tradition as a nation of immigrants while analyzing their place within today’s transborder cultural moment.
Perceptive and humane, Los Yarderos reveals how a group of Mexican immigrants navigates the crossings of the borders that divide class, color hierarchies, gender, and belonging.
Sergio Lemus is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.
