A01=Leah Schmalzbauer
AMERICAN Dream
Author_Leah Schmalzbauer
Boston Metro Area
care work studies
Caretaking Responsibilities
Category=JHM
Central American diaspora
CIA World Fact Book
community
Economic Remittances
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families
family remittances
honduran
Honduran Community
Honduran Economy
Honduran Families
Honduran family daily life research
Honduran Migrants
Honduran Women
Immigration Jail
Inally Hours
Interpretive Focus Group
La Ceiba
Latin American Bureau
migrants
pedro
Primary Economic Providers
qualitative fieldwork
san
Social Remittances
states
sula
Temporary Protected Status
Time Diaries
Time Diary Data
transnational
Transnational Families
Transnational Fathers
Transnational Migrants
transnational migration
Transnational Villages
undocumented immigrants
united
United States
Product details
- ISBN 9780415975933
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing on data the author gathered in Honduras and the United States from weekly time diaries, in-depth interviews, participant observation and interpretive focus groups, she looks specifically at the experience and prospects of transmigrant labor in the United States; the aspirations and consumption practices of transnational family members in the United States and Honduras, especially as the relate to the American Dream; and she explores the ways in which families negotiate caretaking responsibilities, both financial and emotional, while striving and surviving in a transnational space. This is the first daily life study of undocumented immigrants and the first transnational analysis of Honduran families.
Leah Schmalzbauer received her PhD in sociology from Boston College in 2004 and is now an assistant professor of sociology at Montana State University. Her recent work has been published in the Journal of Marriage andFamily and is forthcoming in the Berkeley Journal ofSociology.
