They Never Come Back : : A Story of Undocumented Workers from Mexico /

They Never Come Back : : A Story of Undocumented Workers from Mexico / / Frans J. Schryer.

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For Mexicans on both sides of the border, the migrant experience has changed significantly over the past two decades. In They Never Come Back, Frans J. Schryer draws on the experiences of indigenous people from a region in the Mexican state of Guerrero to explore the impact of this transformation on...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Schryer, Frans J.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (168 p.) :; 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. What Happened to the Mexican Miracle?
  • 2. “Struggling to Get Ahead”
  • 3. “No One Lives There”
  • 4. “I Feel Sorry for Them”
  • 5. “It Used to Be Easy to Cross the Border”
  • 6. “In the United States All You Do Is Work”
  • 7. “For Me It Is about the Same”
  • 8. “Mexicans Are Good Workers”
  • 9. “We Can Never Hang Out with Our Friends”
  • 10. “They Only Send You Back if You Are Bad”
  • 11. “We Must Carry On Our Ancestors’ Traditions”
  • 12. “I Don’t Have Much in Common with My Cousin”
  • 13. The System Is Broken
  • Suggested Readings and References
  • Acknowledgments

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