The Near Northwest Side Story: Migration, Displacement, and Puerto Rican Families

by Gina M. Pérez and Gina Perez

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In The Near Northwest Side Story, Gina M. P rez offers an intimate and unvarnished portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico--two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. P rez's masterful blend of history and ethnography explores the multiple and gendered reasons for migration, why people maintain transnational connections with distant communities, and how poor...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0520233689

ISBN13:9780520233683

Release Date:October 2004

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:276 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Anthropology Cultural History Humanities Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology State & Local

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