Peruvian Lives across Borders

Power, Exclusion, and Home

M. Cristina Alcalde (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2018
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08346-4 (ISBN)

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In Peruvian Lives across Borders, M. Cristina Alcalde examines the evolution of belonging and the making of home among middle- and upper-class Peruvians in Peru, the United States, Canada, and Germany. Alcalde draws on interviews, surveys, participant observation, and textual analysis to argue that to belong is to exclude. To that end, transnational Peruvians engage in both subtle and direct policing along the borders of belonging. These acts allow them to claim and maintain the social status they enjoyed in their homeland even as they profess their openness and tolerance. Alcalde details these processes and their origins in Peru's gender, racial, and class hierarchies. As she shows, the idea of return—whether desired or rejected, imagined or physical—spurs constructions of Peruvianness, belonging, and home.

Deeply researched and theoretically daring, Peruvian Lives across Borders answers fascinating questions about an understudied group of migrants.

M. Cristina Alcalde is an associate professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	9 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08346-6 / 0252083466
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08346-4 / 9780252083464
Zustand	Neuware