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Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders read ebook. Sacrificing families is a must read on why families choose to become transnational, how they struggle to overcome distance and time, and the united states immigration policies that force this cultural and emotional divide. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders by leisy abrego. Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both. Sacrificing families examines the individual and societal impacts of salvadoran families migration as it relates to various dimensions of family life. Read sacrificing families navigating laws, labor, and love across borders by leisy j. Isbn 9780804790574 available for purchase at the spartan bookstore and online. Leisy abrego gives voice to these immigrants and their families and documents the inequalities across their experiences. When to risk it all on your big idea with marc lore wide open with tony gonzalez duration. Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Participants in the larger study were latina teens between the ages of 11 and 19 years who had attempted suicide up to 6 months prior to the interview n 122 and their parents n 86 mothers, 19 fathers. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders stanford.
While most of us view legal status as a mere matter of bureaucratic clarification, to migrants, this categorization may confer life or death, a life of hardship or prosperity. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders by. Sacrificing families navigating laws labor and love across. What motivated migrantimmigrant interviewees to travel to the us. It captures the tragedy of these families daily living arrangements, but also delves deeper to expose the structural context that creates and sustains patterns of. It captures the tragedy of these families daily living arrangements, but also delves deeper to expose the structural context that creates and sustains patterns of inequality in their wellbeing. June 2018 54 may 2018 86 april 2018 34 march 2018 27 february 2018 27 january 2018 21. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders leisy j. Her expertise is in the areas of families, central american migration, and lived experiences of immigration policies. Leisy j abrego widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is. Navigating laws, labor and love across borders author. After youve bought this ebook, you can choose to download either the pdf.
The author examines what prevents parents from migrating with their children, their experiences with long. Sacrificing families illuminates the multitude areas of life that are affected by illegality, a social and political construct meant to latinos in their place. Sacrificing families offers a firsthand look at salvadoran transnational families, how the parents fare in the united states, and the experiences of the children back home. Choose which scenario defines illegality and which one describes having legal status what does illegality mean for transnational families. Governor bush is right it is a motivation of love that drives many to navigation. A reception precedes the talk, and copies of sacrificing families. At the start of the twentyfirst century, two arms of u. But the reality of their experiences is often harsh, and structural barriersparticularly.
The first, enforcement practices, lead to the involuntary separation of parents and childrenor the fears of this outcomewhen the united states government detains and forcibly removes the parents of u. Navigating laws, labor and love across borders leisy j. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders leisy abrego widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children, and both mothers and fathers often find that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Abrego eloquently weaves the narratives of transnational families together, while connecting. The structure of trauma through seperation abrego chapter. But the needs and struggles of the families are intergenerational, meaning that they are deeply connected and interdependent on every level, practically and emotionally. Chicago distribution center, 11030 south langley ave. A comparison group of latinas of approximately the same socialeconomic background who reported no lifetime history of suicide attempts n 110 and their parents n 83. Sacrificing families offers a firsthand look at salvadoran transnational families, how the parents fare in the united states, and the experiences of the children. Widening global inequalities make it difficult for parents. Soci 160 syllabus 2017 0123 san jose state university. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders by leisy j abrego online at alibris. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders by leisy abrego journal issue. Abrego, 9780804790512, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide.
Through a comparison of indepth interviews with immigrant mothers and fathers in the u. What were some goals that they had in migrating to the us. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders stanford university press is about. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders by abrego at over 30 bookstores. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders by leisy j. Sacrificing parents on the altar of childrens rights. The few resources that these families can draw upon for support from the host society derive primarily from legal provisions based on the deservingness and rights of the children. Navigating laws, labor, and love across border draws from the lived experiences of salvadoran parents residing in the us and of their children who remain back home. Abrego sacrificing families draws attention to the disparities that sharply distinguish some transnational families from others. Navigating laws, labor, and love across borders kindle edition by abrego, leisy j download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Illegality as a source of solidarity and tension in latino. Sacrificing families from stanford university press at the. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sacrificing families. Rosa amelia abrego abt 01 feb 1890 abt 01 nov 1963 managed by marta alicia reinen last edited 20 feb 2017.
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