Sacrificing families : navigating laws, labor, and love across borders / Leisy J. Abrego.
by
 
Abrego, Leisy J., 1975- author.

ISBN
9780804790574

Title
Sacrificing families : navigating laws, labor, and love across borders / Leisy J. Abrego.

Author
Abrego, Leisy J., 1975- author.

Personal Author
Abrego, Leisy J., 1975- author.

Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 250 pages)

Contents
Salvadoran transnational families -- Why parents migrate -- Journeys and initial settlement -- The structure of trauma through separation -- Gendered opportunities, expectations, and well-being -- How children fare -- The consequences of long-term separation -- ¿Valió la pena? : is family separation worth it?

Local Note
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Subject Term
Salvadorans -- Family relationships -- United States.
 
Immigrants -- Family relationships -- United States.
 
Immigrants -- Family relationships -- El Salvador.
 
Immigrant families -- El Salvador.
 
Children of immigrants -- El Salvador.

Geographic Term
El Salvador -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
 
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.

Format
Electronic Resources

Electronic Access
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Publication Date
2014

Publication Information
Stanford, California :
 
Stanford University Press,
 
[2014]
 
©2014


Shelf NumberMaterial TypeCopyShelf LocationStatus
305.8681:E-BOOK11:ONLINEAvailable for online access and/or download