I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty

by Patricia Zavella

Book Overview

I'm Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and community among Mexican Americans and migrants from Mexico. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Patricia Zavella describes how poor and working-class Mexican Americans and migrants to California's central coast struggle for agency amid the region's deteriorating economic conditions and the rise of racial nativism in the United States...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350351
• ISBN13: 9780822350354
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"