Description
Book SynopsisPressing Onwardcenters the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, engaging cognitive and social strategies to resist racial, economic, and gender-based oppression to seguir adelante, or press onward. Both a contemporary view of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on racially minoritized populations and a timeless account of the ways immigration enforcement and healthcare inequality affect migrant mothers, PressingOnward uses ethnography to tell a greater story of persistence amid long-standing structural violence.
Trade Review"[Cerdeña’s] own experiences as an activist and volunteer strengthen her commentary on the failures of health care services available to undocumented women, particularly in relation to prenatal and maternity needs. . . .. In the end, it is their words that give this work coherence and meaning. . . .Recommended." * CHOICE *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: On Love Alone
1. Leaving
2. Moving
3. Arriving
4. Mothering
5. Surviving
Conclusion: Onward
Appendix A. Methods
Appendix B. Ethnographic Tables
Appendix C. Organizations for Immigration and Health Policy Reform and Activism
References
Index
