Mobile Selves: Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S.

by Ulla D Berg and Ulla D. Berg

Book Overview

An explanation of how Peruvian migrants maintain meaningful social relations across borders.

In this engaging volume, Ulla D. Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new portrayals of themselves to overcome the class and racial biases that they had faced in their home country, as well as to control the images...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479875708
• ISBN13: 9781479875702
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"