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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sergio Chávez (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Rice University) , Assistant Professor Sergio Chavez (Rice University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.295kg ISBN: 9780199380589ISBN 10: 0199380589 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 17 March 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsOffering insights to immigration and border studies, Border Lives shows the quintessential border city as both opportunity and barrier, as staging ground for diverse strategies and accommodations. -Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of Paradise Transplanted: Migration and the Making of California Gardens Sergio Chavez digs beneath the headlines and stereotypes to reveal the U.S.-Mexico border as a place of both opportunities and barriers for working-class Mexicans. Drawing on his keen ethnographic senses, he explains how different strategies of border crossing work in practice and their effects on the economy and culture of the region. Border Lives is a deeply humanist account of the heartbreaks and dreams where two countries meet. -David Scott FitzGerald, University of California, San Diego Sergio Chavez's insightful ethnography on the lives of border crossers is an important book. While intimately rendering the lives of his informants, Chavez's innovative framing of the border as a site for studying structure-agency enables him to make an unusual contribution in the sociology of migration. -Robert Smith, author of Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants Author InformationSergio Chávez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University. He was born and raised in California's Salinas Valley. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |