The Xaripu Community Across Borders

Author : Manuel Barajas
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780268076245

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The Xaripu Community across Borders by Manuel Barajas Pdf

During the past three decades there have been many studies of transnational migration. Most of the scholarship has focused on one side of the border, one area of labor incorporation, one generation of migrants, and one gender. In this path-breaking book, Manuel Barajas presents the first cross-national, comparative study to examine a Mexican-origin community’s experience with international migration and transnationalism. He presents an extended case study of the Xaripu community, with home bases in both Xaripu, Michoacán, and Stockton, California, and elaborates how various forms of colonialism, institutional biases, and emergent forms of domination have shaped Xaripu labor migration, community formation, and family experiences across the Mexican/U.S. border for over a century. Of special interest are Barajas’s formal and informal interviews within the community, his examination of oral histories, and his participant observation in several locations. Barajas asks, What historical events have shaped the Xaripus’ migration experiences? How have Xaripus been incorporated into the U.S. labor market? How have national inequalities affected their ability to form a community across borders? And how have migration, settlement, and employment experiences affected the family, especially gender relationships, on both sides of the border?

Author : Manuel Barajas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Colonization
ISBN : UCR:31210016751628

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An Extended Case Study of the Xaripu Community Across Borders by Manuel Barajas Pdf

Author : Paul Kennedy,Victor Roudometof
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134526994

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Communities Across Borders by Paul Kennedy,Victor Roudometof Pdf

Communities across Borders examines the many ways in which national, ethnic or religious groups, professions, businesses and cultures are becoming increasingly tangled together. It show how this entanglement is the result of the vast flows of people, meanings, goods and money that now migrate between countries and world regions. Now the effectiveness and significance of electronic technologies for interpersonal communication (including cyber-communities and the interconnectedness of the global world economy) simultaneously empowers even the poorest people to forge effective cultures stretching national borders, and compels many to do so to escape injustice and deprivation.

Author : Kofi Lomotey,Pamela Braboy Jackson,Muna Adem,Paulina X. Ruf,Valire Carr Copeland,Alvaro Huerta,Norma Iglesias-Prieto,Donathan L. Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1617 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216127468

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People of Color in the United States [4 volumes] by Kofi Lomotey,Pamela Braboy Jackson,Muna Adem,Paulina X. Ruf,Valire Carr Copeland,Alvaro Huerta,Norma Iglesias-Prieto,Donathan L. Brown Pdf

This expansive, four-volume ready-reference work offers critical coverage of contemporary issues that impact people of color in the United States, ranging from education and employment to health and wellness and immigration. People of Color in the United States: Contemporary Issues in Education, Work, Communities, Health, and Immigration examines a wide range of issues that affect people of color in America today, covering education, employment, health, and immigration. Edited by experts in the field, this set supplies current information that meets a variety of course standards in four volumes. Volume 1 covers education grades K–12 and higher education; volume 2 addresses employment, housing, family, and community; volume 3 examines health and wellness; and volume 4 covers immigration. The content will enable students to better understand the experiences of racial and ethnic minorities as well as current social issues and policy. The content is written to be accessible to a wide range of readers and to provide ready-reference content for courses in history, sociology, psychology, geography, and economics, as well as curricula that address immigration, urbanization and industrialization, and contemporary American society.

Author : Gloria H. Cuádraz,Yolanda Flores
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780816537129

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Claiming Home, Shaping Community by Gloria H. Cuádraz,Yolanda Flores Pdf

"Through first-person testimonies, this anthology demonstrates the transformative power of higher education and its impact on the working class"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Marcel Paret,Shannon Gleeson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351725439

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Building Citizenship from Below by Marcel Paret,Shannon Gleeson Pdf

Focusing on what can be referred to as the ‘precarity-agency-migration nexus’, this comprehensive volume leverages the political, economic, and social dynamics of migration to better understand both deepening inequality and popular resistance. Drawing on rich ethnographic and interview-based studies of the United States and Latin America, the authors show how migrants are navigating and challenging conditions of insecurity and structures of power. Detailed case studies illuminate collective survival strategies along the migrant trail, efforts by nannies and dairy workers in the northeast United States to assert dignity and avoid deportation, strategies of reintegration used by deportees in Guatemala and Mexico, and grassroots organizing and public protest in California. In doing so they reveal varied moments of agency without presenting an overly idyllic picture or presuming limitless potential for change. Anchoring the study of migration in the opposition between precarity and agency, the authors thus provide a new window into the continuously unfolding relationship between national borders, global capitalism, and human freedom. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Citizenship Studies.

Author : Jessica M. Vasquez,Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814788288

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Mexican Americans Across Generations by Jessica M. Vasquez,Jessica Vasquez-Tokos Pdf

Studies middle class Mexican American families across three generations and their experiences of racism and assimilation.

Author : Victoria Lawson,Sarah Elwood,Michelle Daigle,Ana Gutiérrez Garza,Juan Herrera,Ellen Kohl,Jovan Lewis,Aaron Mallory,Priscilla McCutcheon,Yolanda González Mendoza,Margaret Marietta Ramírez,Chandan Reddy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820364384

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Abolishing Poverty by Victoria Lawson,Sarah Elwood,Michelle Daigle,Ana Gutiérrez Garza,Juan Herrera,Ellen Kohl,Jovan Lewis,Aaron Mallory,Priscilla McCutcheon,Yolanda González Mendoza,Margaret Marietta Ramírez,Chandan Reddy Pdf

Abolishing Poverty argues for a project of relationality that refuses the whiteness of liberal poverty studies and instead centers critiques of the poverty relation and political futures disavowed under liberal governance. In disrupting poverty thinking, the author collective opens space for diverse frameworks for understanding impoverishment and articulating antiracist knowledges and political visions. The book explores new infrastructures of possibilities and political solidarities rooted in accountable relations to each other and from flights to the future that animate diverse communities. This book is boundary and genre crossing, with broad appeal to scholars of such disciplines as human geography, ethnic studies, decolonial theory, and feminist studies. As a volume, the work is unique in its primary field of human geography in the form of its making, its collective authorship, and its investigation of politics that abolish poverty thinking and engage in activism against the poverty relation produced through settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation.

Author : Richard Delgado,Jean Stefancic
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814720400

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Latina Condition by Richard Delgado,Jean Stefancic Pdf

In 2001, Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic published their definitive Critical Race Theory, a compact introduction to the field that explained, in straightforward language, the origins, principal themes, leading voices, and new directions of this important movement in legal thought. Since then, critical race theory has gone on to influence numerous other fields of scholarship, and the Delgado and Stefancic primer has remained an indispensible guide for students and teachers. Delgado and Stefancic have revised the book to include material on key issues such as colorblind jurisprudence, Latino-Critical scholarship, immigration, and the rollback of affirmative action. This second edition introduces readers to important new voices in fields outside of law, including education and psychology, and offers greatly expanded issues for discussion, updated reading lists, and an extensive glossary of terms.

Author : Martha J. Strickland
Publisher : IAP
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781648027178

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Composing Storylines of Possibilities by Martha J. Strickland Pdf

In this book, internationally migrant families invite us to listen to the storylines of their mostly muted voices as they navigate the local schools in their new cultural context. They call us to hear them as they grapple with issues they encounter. They implore us to feel like an outsider and see the school as a foreign culture with language and communication barriers. The book is organized to enhance this carework. Each chapter begins with a vignette that includes the voices of one or more members of international migrating families, while introducing the context of the chapter. At the end of each chapter readers will find specific implications to consider. These are constructed with preservice teachers, practicing teachers, and educational administrators in mind. As you read each chapter, there is the call for school transformation. The families in this book entreat school personnel to engage with international migrant families and to embrace a risk and resilience model as we strive together for success. These storylines challenge us to examine our personal storylines for biases and deficit understandings and call us all to purposefully rewrite these in the spirit of possibilities as the families in this book have embodied for us.

Author : Ami Harbin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190611743

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Disorientation and Moral Life by Ami Harbin Pdf

This book is a philosophical exploration of disorientation and its significance for action. Disorientations are human experiences of losing one's bearings, such that life is disrupted and it is not clear how to go on. In the face of life experiences like trauma, grief, illness, migration, education, queer identification, and consciousness raising, individuals can be deeply disoriented. These and other disorientations are not rare. Although disorientations can be common and powerful parts of individuals' lives, they remain uncharacterized by Western philosophers, and overlooked by ethicists. Disorientations can paralyze, overwhelm, embitter, and misdirect moral agents, and moral philosophy and motivational psychology have important insights to offer into why this is. More perplexing are the ways disorientations may prompt improved moral action. Ami Harbin draws on first person accounts, philosophical texts, and qualitative and quantitative research to show that in some cases of disorientation, individuals gain new forms of awareness of political complexity and social norms, and new habits of relating to others and an unpredictable moral landscape. She then argues for the moral and political promise of these gains. A major contention of the book is that disorientations have 'non-resolutionary effects': they can help us act without first helping us resolve what to do. In exploring these possibilities, Disorientation and Moral Life contributes to philosophy of emotions, moral philosophy, and political thought from a distinctly feminist perspective. It makes the case for seeing disorientations as having the power to motivate profound and long-term shifts in moral and political action. A feminist re-envisioning of moral psychology provides the framework for understanding how they do so.

Author : Erasmo Gamboa
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295998312

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Bracero Railroaders by Erasmo Gamboa Pdf

Desperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout the United States, particularly the West. Although both governments promised the workers adequate living arrangements and fair working conditions, most bracero railroaders lived in squalor, worked dangerous jobs, and were subject to harsh racial discrimination. Making matters worse, the governments held a percentage of the workers’ earnings in a savings and retirement program that supposedly would await the men on their return to Mexico. However, rampant corruption within both the railroad companies and the Mexican banks meant that most workers were unable to collect what was rightfully theirs. Historian Erasmo Gamboa recounts the difficult conditions, systemic racism, and decades-long quest for justice these men faced. The result is a pathbreaking examination that deepens our understanding of Mexican American, immigration, and labor histories in the twentieth-century U.S. West.

Author : Katharina Ruckstuhl,Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj,John-Andrew McNeish,Nancy Postero
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000770339

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The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development by Katharina Ruckstuhl,Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj,John-Andrew McNeish,Nancy Postero Pdf

This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves. In contrast to earlier writing on development, this volume focuses on Indigenous peoples as inspiring theorists and potent political actors who resist the ongoing destruction of their livelihoods. To foster their own visions of development, they look from the present back to Indigenous pasts and forward to Indigenous futures. Key questions: How do Indigenous theories of justice, sovereignty, and relations between humans and non-humans inform their understandings of development? How have Indigenous people used Rights of Nature, legal pluralism, and global governance systems to push for their visions? How do Indigenous relations with the Earth inform their struggles against natural resource extraction? How have native peoples negotiated the dangers and benefits of capitalism to foster their own life projects? How do Indigenous peoples in diaspora and in cities around the world contribute to Indigenous futures? How can Indigenous intellectuals, artists, and scientists control their intellectual property and knowledge systems and bring into being meaningful collective life projects? The book is intended for Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, communities, scholars, and students. It provides a guide to current thinking across the disciplines that converge in the study of development, including geography, anthropology, environmental studies, development studies, political science, and Indigenous studies.

Author : George Butler
Publisher : Walker Studio
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 1406392162

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Drawn Across Borders: Stories of Migration by George Butler Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCSC:32106019470001

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Sociological Perspectives by Anonim Pdf