Beschreibung:
Explores how two populations of indigenous Mexican migrants are using their multi-layered identities and bi-national labor experiences to organize for economic and political change.
Illustrations and Tables viiPreface ixAcknowledgments xix1. Approaches to Transborder Lives 12. Transborder Communities in Political and Historical Context: Views from Oaxaca 353. Mexicans in California and Oregon 634. Transborder Labor Lives: Harvesting, Housecleaning, Gardening, and Childcare 955. Surveillance and Invisibility in the Lives of Indigenous Farmworkers in Oregon 1436. Women’s Transborder Lives: Gender Relations in Work and Families 1787. Navigating the Borders of Racial and Ethnic Hierarchies 2098. Grassroots Organizing in Transborder Lives 2319. Transborder Ethnic Identity Construction in Life and on the Net: E-Mail and Web Page Construction and Use 274Conclusions 309Epilogue: Notes on Collaborative Research 321Notes 327Works Cited 335Index 359