Peruvian Lives Across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home

by M. Christina Alcalde

In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany.

Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083466
• ISBN13: 9780252083464
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"