TY - BOOK ID - 52582330 TI - Women, migration, and domestic work on the Texas-Mexico border PY - 2011 SN - 159332457X 1593326815 9781593326814 9781593324575 PB - El Paso LFB Scholarly Pub. DB - UniCat KW - Women foreign workers KW - Women household employees KW - Foreign workers, Mexican KW - Foreign women workers KW - Women alien labor KW - Migrant women labor (Foreign workers) KW - Migrant women workers (Foreign workers) KW - Women migrant labor (Foreign workers) KW - Women migrant workers (Foreign workers) KW - Foreign workers KW - Women employees KW - Housemaids KW - Maids, House KW - Women domestics KW - Women servants KW - Household employees KW - Mexican-American Border Region KW - American-Mexican Border Region KW - Border Region, American-Mexican KW - Border Region, Mexican-American KW - Borderlands (Mexico and U.S.) KW - Mexico-United States Border Region KW - Tierras Fronterizas de México-Estados Unidos KW - United States-Mexico Border Region KW - Emmigration and immigration KW - Social aspects. KW - Economic aspects. KW - E-books KW - Emigration and immigration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52582330 AB - Mendoza examines cross-border migration by Mexican women, who live in Mexico and work in domestic service in the U.S.. She finds that multiple factors such as age, financial stability, and previous work experience draw women to "migrate" across the border daily. In addition, gender, social class, and nationality transform the spaces they encounter crossing the border. These spaces shape the reception and the perception of their status as migrants. The legality of cross-border domestic workers fluctuates and is complicated by the "safe" and "risky" spaces they inhabit on their journey. Finally, ER -