Seminal essays on how women adapt to the structural transformations caused by the large migration from Mexico to the US., how they create or contest representations of their identities in light of their marginality, and give voice to their own agency
About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
Part 1. Borderlands as Site of Struggle
Toward a Planetary Civil Society / Rosa Linda Fregoso 35
A Glass Half Empty: Latina Reproduction and Public Discourse / Leo
R. Chavez 67
Illegal Status and Social Citizenship: Thoughts on Mexican
Immigrants in a Postnational World / Adelaida R. Del Castillo
92
“Looking Like a Lesbian”: The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at
the United States-Mexican Border / Eithne Luibheid 106
The Value of Immigrant Life / Jonathan Xavier India 134
Part 2. The Topography of Violence
Manufacturing Sexual Subjects: “Harassment,” Desire, and Discipline
on a Maquiladora Shopfloor / Leslie Salzinger 161
The Dialectics of Still Life: Murder, Women, and Maquiladoras /
Melissa W. Wright 184
Rape as a Weapon of War: Militarized Rape at the US-Mexico Border /
Sylvanna M. Falcon 203
“Nunca he dejada de tener terror”: Sexual Violence in the Lives of
Mexican Immigrant Women / Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez 224
Part 3. Flexible Accumulation and Resistance
Changing Constructions of Sexuality and Risk: Migrant Mexican Women
Farmworkers in California / Xochitl Castaneda and Patricia Zavella
249
Space, Gender, and Work: Home-Based Workers in Mexico / Faranak
Miraftab 269
Mexican Immigrant Women and the New Domestic Labor / Maria de la
Luz Ibarra 286
“Aqui estamos y no nos vamos” Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles
and New Citizenship Claims / Cynthia Cranford 306
Part 4. Family Formations and Transnational Social Networks
Transborder Families and Gendered Trajectories of Migration and
Work / Norma Ojeda de la Pena 327
Women, Migration, and Household Survival Strategies: Mixtec Women
in Tijuana / Laura Velasco Ortiz 341
Single-Parent Families: Choice or Constraint? The Formation of
Female-Headed Households in Mexican Shanty Towns / Sylvia Chant
360
Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and
Employment / Denise A. Segura 368
“I’m Here, but I’m There”: The Meanings of Latina Transnational
Motherhood / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila 388
Part 5. Transculturation and Identity in Daily Life
Reproduction of Gender Relations in the Mexican Migrant Community
of New Rochelle, New York / Victoria Malkan 415
“En el norte la mujer manda”: Gender, Generation, and Geography in
a Mexican Transnational Community / Jennifer S. Hirsch 438
Unruly Passions: Poetics, Performance, and Gender in the Ranchera
Song / Olga Najera-Ramirez 456
Becoming Selena, Becoming Latina / Deborah Paredez 477
Cyberbrides and Global Imaginaries: Mexican Women’s Turn from the
National to the Foreign / Felicity Schaeffer-Grabiel 503
Bibliography 521
Contributors 585
Index 587
Denise A. Segura is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Patricia Zavella is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
"A deeply felt and thoroughly researched work, Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands brings together some of the most important feminist voices in the field of immigration and transnational studies. I think Gloria Anzaldua would have been proud to see how the authors of this book took her concept of the borderlands and grounded it ethnographically in the sorrows, struggles, and dreams of contemporary Chicana and Mexican women. A timely and courageous book that speaks to the major issue of our time--the search for home across and between and despite borders."--Ruth Behar, author of Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story "Denise A. Segura and Patricia Zavella have compiled a spectacular collection on gender, migration, sexuality, work, and family. Timely, provocative, and imaginative, the essays in Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands will become essential readings across a variety of (inter)disciplines: Latina/o studies, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, Latin American studies, American studies, urban planning, and public policy."--Vicki Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
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