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Author Sandoval-Cervantes, Iván, author.

Title Oaxaca in motion : an ethnography of internal, transnational, and return migration / Iván Sandoval-Cervantes
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022]
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (132 pages)
Contents Introduction. Noticing Internal and Transnational Migrations -- Chapter 1. Research in Zegache: Multiple Histories -- Chapter 2. Leaving Zegache: Internal and Transnational Women Migrants -- Chapter 3. Labor Corridors I: Peasants and Soldiers -- Chapter 4. Labor Corridors II: Transnational Migration and Masculinity -- Chapter 5. The Masculine Familiarity of Work; or, How Cooking Became Masculine -- Chapter 6. Migration and Femininity: Beyond the Tutelage of the Mothers-in-Law -- Conclusion
Summary "The book looks at the different experiences of migrants from the Zapotec community of Zegache, in Oaxaca, Mexico, especially women who have migrated to Mexico City and men who have moved to Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States. In particular, it focuses on gender and kinship and how different kinds of migration affect gender and kinship in different ways"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Migration, Internal -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
Return migration -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
Zapotec women -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- Social life and customs
Zapotec Indians -- United States -- Social life and customs
Internal migrants -- Mexico -- Social life and customs
Sex role.
Zapotec Indians -- Kinship
Zapotec Indians -- Family relationships
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Migration, Internal -- Social aspects
Return migration -- Social aspects
Sex role
Zapotec Indians -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT Oaxaca (Mexico : State) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Subject Mexico
Mexico -- Mexico City
Mexico -- Oaxaca (State)
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022002155
ISBN 1477326065
9781477326060
9781477326053
1477326057