Shadowed lives : undocumented immigrants in American society /
Chavez, Leo R.
Shadowed lives : undocumented immigrants in American society / [print] Leo Chavez. - Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, (c)1998. - xvii, 222 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Section 1: The setting Section 2: Separation Section 3: Crossing borders Section 4: Life on the farm Section 5: Suburban shantytown and refuge Section 6: Green Valley's final days Section 7: Families, domestic groups, and networks Section 8: Work Section 9: Learning to live as an "illegal alien" Section 10: Incorporation
Undocumented immigrants and the larger society -- Local reactions to "illegal aliens". Migration as a part of family history -- Target earners -- Dissatisfaction with local economic opportunities -- The immigrants dream -- Female immigrants -- Family conflicts -- Adventure and curiosity -- Central American immigrants -- Final thoughts. The border zone -- The soccer field experience -- Memories of crossing the border -- Crossing the hills with family -- Avoiding the hills -- Central Americans: Many borders to cross -- Risks of separation -- Borders and liminality. Life in the camps -- Relations back home -- Discardable workers -- Women and children in the canyons -- Marginality and incorporation -- Settled farmworkers. The migrant problem -- A community at Green Valley -- Life in the camp. Street-corner employment -- The health department -- The final days -- Green Valley's demolition -- After Green Valley -- Final thoughts. Transnational families and reunited families -- Marriage -- Binational families -- Domestic groups -- Networks, clusters, and "daughter communities". Quest for work -- The steady worker -- Women and domestic work -- The work ethic -- English and work -- Earnings and mobility -- Final thoughts. Home as a refuge -- Implications of being apprehended -- Apprehension experiences -- Fear and behavior -- Seeking the security of documentation. Economic incorporation -- Social incorporation -- Cultural incorporation -- Personal incorporation -- Incorporation and the larger society.
One of the few case studies of undocumented immigrants available, this insightful anthropological analysis humanizes a group of people too often reduced to statistics and stereotypes. The hardships of Hispanic migration are conveyed in the immigrants' own voices while the author's voice raises questions about power, stereotypes, settlement, and incorporation into American society. - Publisher description.
97070723
Illegal aliens--California--San Diego County.
Illegal aliens--California, Southern.
JV6926.C512.S533 1998
Shadowed lives : undocumented immigrants in American society / [print] Leo Chavez. - Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, (c)1998. - xvii, 222 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Section 1: The setting Section 2: Separation Section 3: Crossing borders Section 4: Life on the farm Section 5: Suburban shantytown and refuge Section 6: Green Valley's final days Section 7: Families, domestic groups, and networks Section 8: Work Section 9: Learning to live as an "illegal alien" Section 10: Incorporation
Undocumented immigrants and the larger society -- Local reactions to "illegal aliens". Migration as a part of family history -- Target earners -- Dissatisfaction with local economic opportunities -- The immigrants dream -- Female immigrants -- Family conflicts -- Adventure and curiosity -- Central American immigrants -- Final thoughts. The border zone -- The soccer field experience -- Memories of crossing the border -- Crossing the hills with family -- Avoiding the hills -- Central Americans: Many borders to cross -- Risks of separation -- Borders and liminality. Life in the camps -- Relations back home -- Discardable workers -- Women and children in the canyons -- Marginality and incorporation -- Settled farmworkers. The migrant problem -- A community at Green Valley -- Life in the camp. Street-corner employment -- The health department -- The final days -- Green Valley's demolition -- After Green Valley -- Final thoughts. Transnational families and reunited families -- Marriage -- Binational families -- Domestic groups -- Networks, clusters, and "daughter communities". Quest for work -- The steady worker -- Women and domestic work -- The work ethic -- English and work -- Earnings and mobility -- Final thoughts. Home as a refuge -- Implications of being apprehended -- Apprehension experiences -- Fear and behavior -- Seeking the security of documentation. Economic incorporation -- Social incorporation -- Cultural incorporation -- Personal incorporation -- Incorporation and the larger society.
One of the few case studies of undocumented immigrants available, this insightful anthropological analysis humanizes a group of people too often reduced to statistics and stereotypes. The hardships of Hispanic migration are conveyed in the immigrants' own voices while the author's voice raises questions about power, stereotypes, settlement, and incorporation into American society. - Publisher description.
97070723
Illegal aliens--California--San Diego County.
Illegal aliens--California, Southern.
JV6926.C512.S533 1998