Transborder Lives: Indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico, California, and Oregon

by Lynn Stephen

Book Overview

Lynn Stephen's innovative ethnography follows indigenous Mexicans from two towns in the state of Oaxaca--the Mixtec community of San Agust n Atenango and the Zapotec community of Teotitl n del Valle--who periodically leave their homes in Mexico for extended periods of work in California and Oregon. Demonstrating that the line separating Mexico and the United States is only one among the many borders that these migrants repeatedly cross (including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822339900
• ISBN13: 9780822339908
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"