Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 276 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0520233689
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0520233670
Content:
The Near Northwest Side Story is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and gender. Gina M. Perez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-264) and index
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Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction: A Gendered Tale of Two Barrios; 2 "Fleeing the Cane" and the Origins of Displacement; 3 "Know Your Fellow American Citizen from Puerto Rico"; 4 Los de Afuera, Transnationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Identity; 5 Gentrification, Intrametropolitan Migration, and the Politics of Place; 6 Transnational Lives, Kin Work, and Strategies of Survival; 7 Conclusion: Revisiting the Gender, Poverty, and Migration Debate; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520233676
Additional Edition:
Print version The Near Northwest Side Story : Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families
Language:
English
