Words of passage : national longing and the imagined lives of Mexican migrants /

Words of passage : national longing and the imagined lives of Mexican migrants / Hilary Parsons Dick.

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Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico--even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others' l...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Dick, Hilary Parsons (Author)
Format: Government Document eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Mexicans > Migrations.
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration.
Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Uriangato (Mexico) > Emigration and immigration.
Mexico.
Table of Contents:
  • So far from God: state-wndorsed imaginaries of moral mobility in Mexico
  • Private eyes, good girls: authoritative accounts and the social life of interviewing
  • Diaspora at home: homebuilding and the failures of progress
  • Possibility and perdition: discursive interaction and ethico-moral practice in traditionalist talk of migration
  • Saints and suffering: critical appeal in relationships with the divine beyond.

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