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

ISBN:

9780804790574

Title:

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?

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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]

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Summary

This book is about how U.S. immigration policies and immigrants' gendered experiences stratify the well-being of Salvadoran mothers and fathers in the United States and their children who remain in El Salvador.

Author Notes

Leisy Abrego is Assistant Professor of Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.