{"product_id":"mexicans-in-alaska-9781496205636","title":"Mexicans in Alaska","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eMexicans in Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the mobility and experience of place of three generations of migrants who have been moving between Acuitzio del Canje, Michoacán, Mexico, and Anchorage, Alaska, since the 1950s. Based on Sara V. Komarnisky’s twelve months of ethnographic research at both sites and on more than ten years of engagement with the people in these locations, this book reveals that over time, Acuitzences have created a comprehensive sense of orientation within a transnational social field. Both locationsand the common experience of mobility between them are essential for feeling “at home.” This migrant way of life requires the development of a transnational habitus as well as the skills, statuses, and knowledge required to live in both places. Komarnisky’s work presents a multigenerational and cross-continental understanding of the contemporary transnational experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMexicans in Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e examines how Acuitzences are livi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sara Komarnisky provides a needed intervention in Latin American and Latinx studies through her ethnographic study of Mexicans in Alaska, an area severely understudied to date.\"—Jennifer Domino Rudolph, \u003ci\u003eAmericas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMexicans in Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive and humane consideration of the desirable qualities and underestimated ingenuity and rigors informing the mobility and place-making of Mexican people in Alaska and Acuitzio del Canje, pointing to the undervalued diversity from within shaping Mexican immigrant and Mexican American family investments and life throughout the United States and its history.\"—Ana E. Rosas, \u003ci\u003eAlaska Journal of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I truly enjoyed reading this rich ethnography. It is thoroughly researched, and the writing is clear and engaging. It is also theoretically provocative and methodologically sophisticated.\"—Leah Schmalzbauer, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studie\u003c\/i\u003es\u003cbr\u003e“A solid contribution to social science scholarship. Its inclusion of three generations of migrants provides a nice depth of time not often found in ethnographic scholarship, and its focus on Alaska as part of ‘greater Mexico’ is a novel and important contribution to the scholarship on migration in the United States.”—Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, associate professor of anthropology at Loyola University Chicago\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMexicans in Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e enriches the study of migration through its lucid ethnography and theorizing. . . . By exploring the different dimensions of mobility across the continent in multigenerational networks, \u003ci\u003eMexicans in Alaska\u003c\/i\u003e brings a new understanding to the social and material relations that extend between localities, not nations. An engaging ethnography.”—Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences and professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Acuitzences in Alaska\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Yes, There Are Mexicans in Alaska\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tracing Mexican Alaska: A Transnational Social Space\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Annual Migration of the Traveling Swallows: Shared Experiences of Mobility across North America\u003cbr\u003e 3. “My Grandfather Worked Here”: Three Generations of the Bravo Family in Alaska and Michoacán\u003cbr\u003e 4. “You Have to Get Used to It”: Living the North American Dream\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Stuff of Transnational Life: Suitcases Full of \u003ci\u003eMole\u003c\/i\u003e, T-Shirts, Roosters, and Other Things That Move\u003cbr\u003e 6. “It Freezes the People Together”: Producing a Mexican Alaska\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Freedom to Move\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409219789143,"sku":"9781496205636","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496205636.jpg?v=1730506007","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mexicans-in-alaska-9781496205636","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}