TY - BOOK ID - 78143813 TI - Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers PY - 2013 SN - 0813562864 9781461958345 1461958342 9780813562865 9780813562858 0813562856 9780813562841 0813562848 PB - New Brunswick, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Mexican American women KW - Mexican American women agricultural laborers KW - Chicanas KW - Women, Mexican American KW - Women KW - Chicana agricultural laborers KW - Women agricultural laborers, Mexican American KW - Women agricultural laborers KW - Social life and customs. KW - Social conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78143813 AB - In Daughters and Granddaughters of Farmworkers, Barbara Wells examines the work and family lives of Mexican American women in a community near the U.S.-Mexican border in California's Imperial County. Decades earlier, their Mexican parents and grandparents had made the momentous decision to migrate to the United States as farmworkers. This book explores how that decision has worked out for these second- and third-generation Mexican Americans. Wells provides stories of the struggles, triumphs, and everyday experiences of these women. She analyzes their narratives on a broad canvas that includes the social structures that create the barriers, constraints, and opportunities that have shaped their lives. The women have constructed far more settled lives than the immigrant generation that followed the crops, but many struggle to provide adequately for their families. These women aspire to achieve the middle-class lives of the American Dream. But upward mobility is an elusive goal. The realities of life in a rural, agricultural border community strictly limit social mobility for these descendants of immigrant farm laborers. Reliance on family networks is a vital strategy for meeting the economic challenges they encounter. Wells illustrates clearly the ways in which the "long shadow" of farm work continues to permeate the lives and prospects of these women and their families. ER -