The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families

by Gina M. Pérez and Gina Perez

Book Overview

In The Near Northwest Side Story, Gina M. P rez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico--two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. P rez's masterful blend of history and ethnography explores the multiple and gendered reasons for migration, why people maintain transnational connections with distant communities, and how poor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520233689
• ISBN13: 9780520233683
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"