Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History)

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Drawing upon a personal choice of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other members of the family across the U.S.-Mexico border, Miroslava Chavez-Garcia recreates and gives meaning to the hope, fear, and longing migrants experienced in their on a regular basis lives both “here” and “there” (aqui y alla). As private sources of communication hidden from public consumption and historical research, the letters provide a rare glimpse into the deeply emotional, personal, and social lives of odd Mexican women and men as recorded in their immediate, firsthand accounts. Chavez-Garcia demonstrates not only how migrants struggled to handle their sense of humanity in el norte but also how those remaining at home made sense of their changing identities based on the loss of family members who from time to time left for weeks, months, or years at a time, or simply never returned.

With this richly detailed account, ranging from the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s to the emergence of Silicon Valley in the late 1960s, Chavez-Garcia opens a new window onto the social, economic, political, and cultural developments of the day and recovers the human agency of much maligned migrants in our society as of late.

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