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MEXICAN MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2010

Jessica M. Vasquez
Jessica M. Vasquez*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
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Professor Jessica M. Vasquez. Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd., Rm. 735, Lawrence, KS 66045-7556. E-mail: [email protected]
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Literature on international migration, assimilation, and transnationalism continues to be concerned with questions about ties that migrants and their descendents have with their homelands, coethnics, and the native-born population. Tomás R. Jiménez's Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity and Joanna Dreby's Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children provide important perspectives on different aspects of the larger phenomenon of international migration from Mexico to the United States that is a consequence of labor demand in the United States, economic need and job scarcity in Mexico, and a global economy. Both books deal with social life that takes place across ethnic boundaries, within ethnic groups, and across national borders. Taking qualitative approaches and dealing with the perennial tension between inclusion and exclusion, these books analyze the experiences and perspectives of Mexican migrants, Mexican children, and Mexican Americans.

Type
State of the Discourse
Information
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Spring 2010 , pp. 51 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2010

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References

Jiménez, Tomás R., Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009, 366 pages, ISBN 978-0520261426. Paper, $21.95.Google Scholar
Dreby, Joanna, Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and their Children. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010, 336 pages, ISBN 978-0520260900. Paper, $21.95.Google Scholar