Author Description
Marriage After Migration tells the stories of five women in rural Mexico, each navigating the tricky terrain that is men's international migration. With their husbands and sons working in the United States, will the women be able to hold their families together? The women's lives reveal how marginalized people--including indigenous people--drive globalization. Their journeys show how globalization goes beyond economics to affect the underpinnings of a society and people's most intimate relationships. Author Nora Haenn illuminates dynamics otherwise overlooked in debates about globalization and migration. In relating how migration changes families and rewrites gender roles, Haenn draws upon twenty-five years of experience in Mexico. Her engaging writing style crystalizes for students from all backgrounds what it means not to move.Marriage After Migration is a volume in the series ISSUES OF GLOBALIZATION: CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGY, which examines the experiences of individual communities in our contemporary world. Each volume offers a brief and engaging exploration of a particular issue arising from globalization and its cultural, political, and economic effects on certain peoples or groups.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
How does the international migration of men fundamentally reshape the domestic lives, gender roles, and social structures of the women who remain in rural Mexico? Nora Haenn, an anthropologist with twenty-five years of fieldwork experience in Mexico, utilizes ethnographic case studies to argue that globalization is not merely an economic phenomenon but a force that reconfigures the most intimate aspects of human relationships. By focusing on the experiences of five specific women, the text illustrates how marginalized populations actively participate in and are transformed by global migration patterns.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Ethnographic profiles of five women living in rural Mexico.
- Analysis of how migration affects family cohesion and gender dynamics.
- Examination of the intersection between indigenous identity and global economic forces.
- Contextualization of local experiences within broader globalization debates.
Scope Limits
- The text focuses specifically on the experiences of women left behind in rural Mexico rather than the experiences of the migrants themselves in the United States.
- It does not provide a comprehensive quantitative economic analysis of migration trends.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Scholars and educators frequently identify this work as an accessible and effective case study for undergraduate anthropology courses. Experts highlight the author's ability to translate complex sociological theories into clear, human-centered narratives.
Page Count:
318
Publication Date:
2019-11-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press Academic US
ISBN-10:
0190056029
ISBN-13:
9780190056025
Mexico
Migration Studies
American Studies
Globalization
Sociology
Anthropology
Cultural
Anthropology - Cultural
General Anthropology
Gender Studies
Social Science
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