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The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families

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The Near Northwest Side Story is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and gender. Gina M. Perez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. Perez's masterful blend of history and ethnography explores the multiple and gendered reasons for migration, why people maintain transnational connections with distant communities, and how poor and working-class Puerto Ricans work to build meaningful communities. Perez traces the changing ways that Puerto Ricans have experienced poverty, displacement, and discrimination and illustrates how they imagine and build extended families and dense social networks that link San Sebastian to barrios in Chicago. She includes an incisive analysis of the role of the state in shaping migration through such projects as the Chardon Plan, Operation Bootstrap, and the Chicago Experiment. The Near Northwest Side Story provides a unique window on the many strategies people use to resist the negative consequences of globalization, economic development, and gentrification.

Table of Contents:
List of Figures Preface 1. Introduction: A Gendered Tale ofTwo Barrios 2. "Fleeing the Cane" and the Origins of Displacement 3· "Know Your Fellow American Citizen from Puerto Rico" 4. Los de Afoera) Transnationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Identity 5. Gentrification, Intrametropolitan Migration, and the Politics of Place 6. Transnational Lives, Kin Work, and Strategies of Survival 7· Conclusion: Revisiting the Gender, Poverty, and Migration Debate Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Gina M. Pérez is Assistant Professor of Latina/o Studies in the Comparative American Studies Program at Oberlin College.

Review :
"This is a fascinating account of transnational migration as survival strategy, one bound up in kin, region, and economic restructuring." - Vicki L. Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows; "Perez's fine work is based on intensive research in two distant but interconnected places, conducted by a perceptive and sensitive observer-participant, herself immersed in two languages, cultures, and nations." - Jorge Duany, author of The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780520233676
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 290
  • Sub Title: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0520233670
  • Publisher Date: 04 Oct 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 544 gr


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