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In Daughters And Granddaughters Of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells Examines The Work And Family Lives Of Mexican American Women In A Community Near The U.s.-mexican Border In California's Imperial County. Decades Earlier, Their Mexican Parents And Grandparents Had Made The Momentous Decision To Migrate To The United States As Farmworkers. This Book Explores How That Decision Has Worked Out For These Second- And Third-generation Mexican Americans. Wells Provides Stories Of The Struggles, Triumphs, And Everyday Experiences Of These Women. She Analyzes Their Narratives On A Broad Canvas That Includes The Social Structures That Create The Barriers, Constraints, And Opportunities That Have Shaped Their Lives. The Women Have Constructed Far More Settled Lives Than The Immigrant Generation That Followed The Crops, But Many Struggle To Provide Adequately For Their Families. These Women Aspire To Achieve The Middle-class Lives Of The American Dream. But Upward Mobility Is An Elusive Goal. The Realities Of Life In A Rural, Agricultural Border Community Strictly Limit Social Mobility For These Descendants Of Immigrant Farm Laborers. Reliance On Family Networks Is A Vital Strategy For Meeting The E

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Author

Wells, Barbara, 1950-

Publisher

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813562865

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Agriculture, Sociology