Mobile Selves : : Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. /

Mobile Selves : : Race, Migration, and Belonging in Peru and the U.S. / / Ulla D. Berg.

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An explanation of how Peruvian migrants maintain meaningful social relations across borders.In this engaging volume, Ulla D. Berg examines the conditions under which Peruvians of rural and working-class origins leave the central highlands to migrate to the United States. Migrants often create new po...

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Berg, Ulla D.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Social Transformations in American Anthropology ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Cosmopolitan Desires
  • 1. Salir Adelante: Migration, Travel, and Aspirational Economies in the Central Andes
  • 2. Paper Fixes: The Making of Mobile Subjects in Peru’s Migration Industry
  • Part II. Transnational Socialities
  • 3. Remote Sensing: Structures of Feeling in Long-Distance Communication
  • 4. Unfortunate Visibilities: The Transnational Circulation of Image-Objects
  • Part III. Discrepant Publics
  • 5. Enframing Peruvianness: Folkloric Citizenship and Immigrant Personhood
  • 6. Phantom Citizens in El Quinto Suyo
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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