Description
Book SynopsisAn expansive survey of the cultural fluctuations experienced by Oaxacan migrants both inside and outside of Mexico.
Trade ReviewCogent portraits of the individuals and families [Sandoval-Cervantes] followed in both the home community and their migrant settings in Mexico and the US…Recommended.
* CHOICE *
[A] readable and insightful book…[
Oaxaca in Motion] is an excellent introduction to the gender analysis of migration studies. * American Ethnologist *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Noticing Internal and Transnational Migrations
- Chapter 1. Research in Zegache: Multiple Histories
- Chapter 2. Leaving Zegache: Internal and Transnational Women Migrants
- Chapter 3. Labor Corridors I: Peasants and Soldiers
- Chapter 4. Labor Corridors II: Transnational Migration and Masculinity
- Chapter 5. The Masculine Familiarity of Work; or, How Cooking Became Masculine
- Chapter 6. Migration and Femininity: Beyond the Tutelage of the Mothers-in-Law
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index
