Download or read book Listening to Undocumented Mexican Mothers written by Maria Alex Lopez and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present dissertation is based on a phenomenological study on undocumented Mexican immigrant mothers of high school students who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years and received social services. Most of these mothers have emigrated from rural areas of the central and southern Mexican States of Guanajuato, Michoacan, Queretaro, among others. According to the participants, socio-economic conditions forced them to leave their homelands hoping to find a better life in the U.S. Ten undocumented mothers of high school students living in the U.S. were interviewed from a phenomenological perspective. They were monolingual Spanish speakers (only one mother spoke a native Mexican dialect as a first language and Spanish as a second language), parents of several children, and unskilled laborers with little formal education. This research explored the experiences of these mothers, their beliefs and values, and their relationship with their children's school and the community in general. The study confirmed some of the outcomes presented in the literature review and revealed other findings that are critical to the development of school and social service programs.
Download or read book Undocumented Motherhood written by Elizabeth Farfán-Santos and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrayal of the hardships faced by an undocumented family navigating the medical and educational systems in the United States.
Download or read book Navigating the Policy Context written by Michele Belliveau and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defensive Motherhood written by Barbara Reyes and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research study explored the experiences of ten undocumented Mexican women who are raising their children in the Meadows County communities. While "illegal" immigration has been the focus of recent political and social debates, little sociological research has been conducted on the experiences of undocumented mothers who are raising their children in the United States. Drawing from conversations about their day-to-day lives, this research examines the experiences of undocumented mothers and their interactions with social institutions and services. Findings from the study reveal that undocumented Mexican mothers encountered great difficulty in trying to negotiate their motherhood roles due to constrains their undocumented status inflict. Border Patrol surveilling their communities, constant checkpoints and ICE (Immigration and Custom Enforcements) raids altered their day-, to-day lives. I found that undocumented Mexican mothers navigate their community and its social institutions by using a specific set of behaviors, which I call defensive motherhood that keeps them safe from deportation while negotiating their motherhood roles. Key Words: motherhood, undocumented immigrants, gender, Mexican immigrants
Download or read book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system? When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years later, Aida’s mother took her and her siblings to live in Douglas, Arizona. By then, the border had become one of the most heavily policed sites in America. Undocumented, Aida fought to make her way. She learned English, watched Friends, and, after having a baby at sixteen, dreamed of teaching dance and moving with her son to New York City. But life had other plans. Following a misstep that led to her deportation, Aida found herself in a Mexican city marked by violence, in a country that was not hers. To get back to the United States and reunite with her son, she embarked on a harrowing journey. The daughter of a rebel hero from the mountains of Chihuahua, Aida has a genius for survival—but returning to the United States was just the beginning of her quest. Taking us into detention centers, immigration courts, and the inner lives of Aida and other daring characters, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez reveals the human consequences of militarizing what was once a more forgiving border. With emotional force and narrative suspense, Aaron Bobrow-Strain brings us into the heart of a violently unequal America. He also shows us that the heroes of our current immigration wars are less likely to be perfect paragons of virtue than complex, flawed human beings who deserve justice and empathy all the same.
Download or read book Invisible Women written by Maria Alex Lopez and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a phenomenological study on undocumented Mexican immigrant mothers of high school students who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years and received social services. Most of these mothers have emigrated from rural areas of the central and southern Mexican States of Guanajuato, Michoacan, Queretaro, among others. According to the participants, socio-economic conditions forced them to leave their homelands hoping to find a better life in the U.S.
Download or read book Between Two Homelands written by Maria Eugenia Corral-Ribordy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counter story of an Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Mother of a Mixed legal Status Family written by Mayra Guadalupe Sanchez and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a critical ethnographic study that focuses on the mothering experiences of an undocumented mother of a Mexican working class family of mixed-legal status in California's Central Valley. I explore the everyday lives of a Mexican family through the mother's counter-story and experiences in relation to her everyday struggles to survive and resist macro social and political oppressors that she and her family face. I consider this mother's role basically around ensuring her family's basic sustenance and wellbeing--which include food security, health care, housing, formal education, and in morally socializing of her children towards a buena educacion. In my findings I present how this woman's strategies of resistance as she builds and uses shared funds of knowledge with other women and how she reconstructs her own cultural funds of knowledge and experiences, while empowering her children by raising their consciousness in regards to their race, class, and immigrant status. She teaches her children relevant moral lessons to overcome their challenges that involved transforming suffering into life lessons; valuing hard work; holding the family together; creating a just home; fomenting courage to her children; and imagining and pursuing another reality. I further discuss how this woman's personal counter-story may expand our understanding of how Mexican immigrants of varied legal statuses undergo the oppressions of a racist, capitalist, and anti-immigrant American society in their daily lives.
Download or read book Latinx Belonging written by Natalia Deeb-Sossa and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible and engaging, Latinx Belonging underscores and highlights Latinxs' continued presence and contributions to everyday life in the United States as they both carve out and defend their place in society.
Download or read book The Book of Unknown Americans written by Cristina Henríquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.
Download or read book Women of the Mountain South written by Connie Park Rice and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men, particularly white men. While there have been a few important studies of Appalachian women, no one book has offered a broad overview across time and place. With this collection, editors Connie Park Rice and Marie Tedesco redress this imbalance, telling the stories of these women and calling attention to the varied backgrounds of those who call the mountains home. The essays of Women of the Mountain South debunk the entrenched stereotype of Appalachian women as poor and white, and shine a long-overdue spotlight on women too often neglected in the history of the region. Each author focuses on a particular individual or group, but together they illustrate the diversity of women who live in the region and the depth of their life experiences. The Mountain South has been home to Native American, African American, Latina, and white women, both rich and poor. Civil rights and gay rights advocates, environmental and labor activists, prostitutes, and coal miners—all have lived in the place called the Mountain South and enriched its history and culture.
Download or read book Lucky Boy written by Shanthi Sekaran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. “Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People “A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of motherhood and, ultimately, of love.”—Cristina Henríquez, author of The Book of Unknown Americans Eighteen years old and fizzing with optimism, Solimar Castro-Valdez embarks on a perilous journey across the Mexican border. Weeks later, she arrives in Berkeley, California, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. Undocumented and unmoored, Soli discovers that her son, Ignacio, can become her touchstone, and motherhood her identity in a world where she’s otherwise invisible. Kavya Reddy has created a beautiful life in Berkeley, but then she can’t get pregnant and that beautiful life seems suddenly empty. When Soli is placed in immigrant detention and Ignacio comes under Kavya’s care, Kavya finally gets to be the singing, story-telling kind of mother she dreamed of being. But she builds her love on a fault line, her heart wrapped around someone else’s child. “Nacho” to Soli, and “Iggy” to Kavya, the boy is steeped in love, but his destiny and that of his two mothers teeters between two worlds as Soli fights to get back to him. Lucky Boy is a moving and revelatory ode to the ever-changing borders of love.
Download or read book Status Attainment of Undocumented Mexican Immigrant Children written by Harriett D. Romo and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Separated written by William D. Lopez and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting faces and names to the numbers behind deportation statistics, Separated urges readers to move beyond sound bites and consider the human experience of mixed-status communities in the small everyday towns that dot the interior of the United States.
Download or read book Privilege Risk and Solidarity written by Libby Mae Grammer and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of undocumented immigration cannot be described as either a problem or a possibility in the current political climate--it simply is a reality, and how individual Christians and churches respond to it relies heavily on their theological understanding of what it means to be an immigrant and what it means to be privileged. Taking a combined approach of scriptural exegesis and feminist theology and ethics, this book provides new ways to approach the pressing ethical issue of undocumented immigration. Rich in immigration law and history, along with purposeful looks into the work of feminist scholarship and the stories of immigrants themselves, this book asks hard questions of those with privilege about taking risks to stand in solidarity with some of the most marginalized in U.S. society--our undocumented immigrant neighbors.
Download or read book Listen to Your Mother written by Robert Creamer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patient Citizens Immigrant Mothers written by Alyshia Galvez and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. Alyshia Gálvez provides an ethnographic examination of this paradox. What are the ways that Mexican immigrant women care for themselves during their pregnancies? How do they decide to leave behind some of the practices they bring with them on their pathways of migration in favor of biomedical approaches to pregnancy and childbirth? This book takes us from inside the halls of a busy metropolitan hospital’s public prenatal clinic to the Oaxaca and Puebla states in Mexico to look at the ways Mexican women manage their pregnancies. The mystery of the paradox lies perhaps not in the recipes Mexican-born women have for good perinatal health, but in the prenatal encounter in the United States. Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers is a migration story and a look at the ways that immigrants are received by our medical institutions and by our society
