Shadowed lives : undocumented immigrants in American society / Leo Chavez. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, (c)1998.Description: xvii, 222 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • JV6926.C512.S533 1998
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Contents:
Local reactions to "illegal aliens".
Target earners -- Dissatisfaction with local economic opportunities -- The immigrants dream -- Female immigrants -- Family conflicts -- Adventure and curiosity -- Central American immigrants -- Final thoughts.
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.
Relations back home -- Discardable workers -- Women and children in the canyons -- Marginality and incorporation -- Settled farmworkers.
A community at Green Valley -- Life in the camp.
The health department -- The final days -- Green Valley's demolition -- After Green Valley -- Final thoughts.
Marriage -- Binational families -- Domestic groups -- Networks, clusters, and "daughter communities".
The steady worker -- Women and domestic work -- The work ethic -- English and work -- Earnings and mobility -- Final thoughts.
Implications of being apprehended -- Apprehension experiences -- Fear and behavior -- Seeking the security of documentation.
Social incorporation -- Cultural incorporation -- Personal incorporation -- Incorporation and the larger society.
Subject: 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.
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Section 1: The setting

Undocumented immigrants and the larger society -- Local reactions to "illegal aliens".

Section 2: Separation

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.

Section 3: Crossing borders

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.

Section 4: Life on the farm

Life in the camps -- Relations back home -- Discardable workers -- Women and children in the canyons -- Marginality and incorporation -- Settled farmworkers.

Section 5: Suburban shantytown and refuge

The migrant problem -- A community at Green Valley -- Life in the camp.

Section 6: Green Valley's final days

Street-corner employment -- The health department -- The final days -- Green Valley's demolition -- After Green Valley -- Final thoughts.

Section 7: Families, domestic groups, and networks

Transnational families and reunited families -- Marriage -- Binational families -- Domestic groups -- Networks, clusters, and "daughter communities".

Section 8: Work

Quest for work -- The steady worker -- Women and domestic work -- The work ethic -- English and work -- Earnings and mobility -- Final thoughts.

Section 9: Learning to live as an "illegal alien"

Home as a refuge -- Implications of being apprehended -- Apprehension experiences -- Fear and behavior -- Seeking the security of documentation.

Section 10: Incorporation

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.

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