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Author Trinidad Galván, Ruth, author.

Title Women who stay behind : pedagogies of survival in rural transmigrant Mexico / Ruth Trinidad Galván
Published Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 182 pages) : illustrations
Contents Julieta : wife of a migrant man -- Transmigration, transborder realities, and the transformation of women who stay behind -- Andrea : hesitant and unappreciated activist -- Globalizing from below and the work of grassroots organizations -- Carolina : devoted mother and community leader -- Pedagogical spaces of convivencia and healing -- Jovita : caring and humble woman -- Campesina epistemologies and pedagogies of the spirit
Summary "The book uncovers the social, educational, and cultural tools rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by migration. It addresses the material conditions that lead to the migration of adults from the area, but at the core are the educational and personal endeavors of women to get ahead without the men in their families"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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Subject Mexicans -- United States.
Immigrants -- United States.
Foreign workers -- Family relationships -- Mexico
Wives -- Effect of husband's employment on -- Mexico
Rural women -- Mexico -- Social conditions
Migration, immigration & emigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Immigrants.
Mexicans.
Rural women -- Social conditions.
Wives -- Effect of husband's employment on.
Mexico.
United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816501984
081650198X
9780816531455
0816531455
9780816539246
0816539243