Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration

by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Book Overview

The momentous influx of Mexican undocumented workers into the United States over the last decades has spurred new ways of thinking about immigration. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo's incisive book enlarges our understanding of these recently arrived Americans and uncovers the myriad ways that women and men recreate families and community institutions in a new land.

Hondagneu-Sotelo argues that people do not migrate as a result of concerted household...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520075145
• ISBN13: 9780520075146
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

cutting edge

Issues of gender and immigration are often overlooked in sociological analysis. Hondagneu-Sotelo successfully delves into the convoluted field of sociology of migration and successfully shows ways in which gender transitions within Mexican Families do not cleanly fall into stereotypes one presumes about Mexicans. Overall, a great book to read as an example of strong ethnographic work that is supported with strong theoretical foundations and analysis.

GREAT EXPERIENCE

I thought the book was great. The fact alone that I read it was benefitial in the way that I learned about people's experiences as immigrants. Also, Prof. Hondagneu Sotelo teaches at the University of Southern California, and I had the great opportunity of taking her class (Immigrant America)and reading her book and have her explain it directly.

Thought-provoking perspective on immigration

This academic book is a thought-provoking perspective on the experience of immigration that takes into account the gendered nature of traveling patterns. I recommend it to anyone interested in more than simply the demographic numbers of migration.