TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chávez-García,Miroslava
TI  - Migrant longing: letter writing across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands 
T2  - The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history
SN  - 9781469641041
AV  - E184 .M547 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Mexicans
KW  - United States
KW  - Correspondence
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; An archive of intimacy --; Oye Shelly: migrant longing, courtship, and gendered identity --; Tu peor es nada: gender, courtship, and marriage --; Contesta pronto: migration, return migration, and paternal authority --; A dios: migration, miscommunication, and heartbreak --; A toda madre (ATM): migrant dreams and nightmares in El Norte --; On the significance of letter writing and letters; 2; b
N2  - "Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border, Miroslava Chávez-García recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both "here" and "there" ("aquí y allá"). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply emotional, personal, and social lives of ordinary Mexican men and women as recorded in their immediate, firsthand accounts. Chávez-García demonstrates not only how migrants struggled to maintain their sense of humanity in "El Norte" but also how those remaining at home made sense of their changing identities in response to the loss of loved ones who sometimes left for weeks, months, or years at a time, or simply never returned"--
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