Smith, Robert C.,  1964- <br/><br/>
Mexican New York  transnational lives of new immigrants /  [electronic resource] : 
Robert Courtney Smith. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  c2006. 
 - x, 375 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/> E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal  American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/ 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-349) and index. 
<br/><br/>Transnational life in ethnographic perspective -- Dual contexts for transnational life -- "Los ausentes siempre presentes" : imagining and making a local-level transnational political community -- The defeat of Don Victorio and why it matters : transnationalization, democratization, and regime change on local, state, and federal levels -- Gender strategies, settlement, and transnational life -- "In Ticuani, he goes crazy" : the second generation renegotiates gender in Ticuani -- "Padre Jesus is our protector" : adolescence, religion, and social location in New York and Ticuani -- "I'll go back next year" : local-level transnational life across the life course -- Defending your name in New York and Ticuani : the roots and transnationalization of Mexican gangs -- "Why you gotta mess up a good place?" : returning to a changed Ticuani. 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>2027/heb31542  hdl 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--Social conditions.--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.--New York (State)--New York
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Relations--Mexico.<br/>Mexico--Relations--United States.<br/>New York (N.Y.)--Emigration and immigration.<br/>Puebla (Mexico : State)--Emigration and immigration.<br/>New York (N.Y.)--Ethnic relations.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Mexican Americans Immigrants Transnationalism.