A01=Miroslava Chavez-Garcia
Aguascalientes
Author_Miroslava Chavez-Garcia
Baja California
Bracero program
Brawley
California
calo or pachuco slang
Calvillo
Category=JBSL
Category=NHK
Chihuahua
Ciudad Juarez
El Paso
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eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
gender and migration
Imperial Valley
letter writing
letters as historical sources
Mexicali
Mexican migrants
Mexican migration and emigration
Mexico
Mexico transnational migration
migration and masculinity
San Jose
Spanish-language music
Spanish-language radio
Texas
U.S. Immigration policies
U.S.-Mexico border
U.S.-Mexico borderlands
Product details
- ISBN 9781469641034
- Weight: 418g
- Dimensions: 196 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both ""here"" and ""there"" (aqui y alla). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply emotional, personal, and social lives of ordinary Mexican men and women as recorded in their immediate, firsthand accounts. Chavez-Garcia demonstrates not only how migrants struggled to maintain their sense of humanity in el norte but also how those remaining at home made sense of their changing identities in response to the loss of loved ones who sometimes left for weeks, months, or years at a time, or simply never returned.
With this richly detailed account, ranging from the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s to the emergence of Silicon Valley in the late 1960s, Chavez-Garcia opens a new window onto the social, economic, political, and cultural developments of the day and recovers the human agency of much maligned migrants in our society today.
With this richly detailed account, ranging from the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s to the emergence of Silicon Valley in the late 1960s, Chavez-Garcia opens a new window onto the social, economic, political, and cultural developments of the day and recovers the human agency of much maligned migrants in our society today.
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
