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520 a| "Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border, Miroslava Chávez-García recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both "here" and "there" ("aquí y allá"). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply emotional, personal, and social lives of ordinary Mexican men and women as recorded in their immediate, firsthand accounts. Chávez-García demonstrates not only how migrants struggled to maintain their sense of humanity in "El Norte" but also how those remaining at home made sense of their changing identities in response to the loss of loved ones who sometimes left for weeks, months, or years at a time, or simply never returned"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Migrant longing letter writing across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / Miroslava Chávez-García.

Author/creator	Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Description	xi, 261 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist)
Subjects	Mexicans--United States. --Correspondence. Immigrants--United States. --Correspondence. Mexicans--United States. --Social conditions. --Correspondence. Mexico--Emigration and immigration. --Social aspects. --Correspondence. Mexico--Emigration and immigration. --Social aspects. --Sources.

Series	The David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history David J. Weber series in the new borderlands history. ^A1258699
Contents	An archive of intimacy -- Oye Shelly: migrant longing, courtship, and gendered identity -- Tu peor es nada: gender, courtship, and marriage -- Contesta pronto: migration, return migration, and paternal authority -- A dios: migration, miscommunication, and heartbreak -- A toda madre (ATM): migrant dreams and nightmares in El Norte -- On the significance of letter writing and letters.
Abstract	"Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.S.-Mexico border, Miroslava Chávez-García recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in their everyday lives both "here" and "there" ("aquí y allá"). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply emotional, personal, and social lives of ordinary Mexican men and women as recorded in their immediate, firsthand accounts. Chávez-García demonstrates not only how migrants struggled to maintain their sense of humanity in "El Norte" but also how those remaining at home made sense of their changing identities in response to the loss of loved ones who sometimes left for weeks, months, or years at a time, or simply never returned"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-253) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2017044539
ISBN	9781469641027 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9781469641034 (pbk : alk. paper)

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