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Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers

Barbara Wells
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      In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California’s Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migrate to the United States as farmworkers. This book explores how that decision has worked out for these second- and third-generation Mexican Americans.Wells provides stories of the struggles, triumphs, and everyday experiences of these women. She analyzes their narratives on a broad canvas that includes the social structures that create the barriers, constraints, and opportunities that have shaped their lives. The women have constructed far more settled lives than the immigrant generation that followed the crops, but many struggle to provide adequately for their families.These women aspire to achieve the middle-class lives of the American Dream. But upward mobility is an elusive goal. The realities of life in a rural, agricultural border community strictly limit social mobility for these descendants of immigrant farm laborers. Reliance on family networks is a vital strategy for meeting the economic challenges they encounter. Wells illustrates clearly the ways in which the ""long shadow” of farm work continues to permeate the lives and prospects of these women and their families.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Barbara Wells EAN: 9780813562841 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 456 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Rutgers University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-11-15 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      Relating to African American / Black American people, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Cultural studies: food and society, Migration, immigration and emigration, Rural communities, Ethnic studies, Social and cultural history

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      BARBARA WELLS is a professor of sociology and Vice President and Dean of Maryville College. She is a coauthor of the award-winning textbook Diversity in Families.
      In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California’s Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migrate to the United States as farmworkers. This book explores how that decision has worked out for these second- and third-generation Mexican Americans.Wells provides stories of the struggles, triumphs, and everyday experiences of these women. She analyzes their narratives on a broad canvas that includes the social structures that create the barriers, constraints, and opportunities that have shaped their lives. The women have constructed far more settled lives than the immigrant generation that followed the crops, but many struggle to provide adequately for their families.These women aspire to achieve the middle-class lives of the American Dream. But upward mobility is an elusive goal. The realities of life in a rural, agricultural border community strictly limit social mobility for these descendants of immigrant farm laborers. Reliance on family networks is a vital strategy for meeting the economic challenges they encounter. Wells illustrates clearly the ways in which the ""long shadow” of farm work continues to permeate the lives and prospects of these women and their families.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Barbara Wells EAN: 9780813562841 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 456 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Rutgers University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-11-15 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      Relating to African American / Black American people, Relating to Latin / Hispanic American people, Cultural studies: food and society, Migration, immigration and emigration, Rural communities, Ethnic studies, Social and cultural history

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      BARBARA WELLS is a professor of sociology and Vice President and Dean of Maryville College. She is a coauthor of the award-winning textbook Diversity in Families.

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