TY - BOOK ID - 78715017 TI - Divided by borders PY - 2010 SN - 1282422316 9786612422317 0520945832 9780520945838 0520266609 9780520266605 0520260902 9780520260900 9781282422315 6612422319 9780520260887 0520260880 PB - Berkeley University of California Press DB - UniCat KW - Emigrant remittances - Mexico. KW - Emigrant remittances -- Mexico. KW - Households - Mexico. KW - Households -- Mexico. KW - Marital conflict. KW - Marital conflict -- Case studies. KW - Mexicans - Family relationships - United States. KW - Mexicans -- Family relationships --United States -- Case studies. KW - Mexico - Emigration and immigration. KW - Mexico -- Emigration and immigration. KW - Parent and child. KW - Parent and child -- Case studies. KW - Mexicans KW - Emigrant remittances KW - Households KW - Marital conflict KW - Parent and child KW - Immigration & Emigration KW - Political Science KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Child and parent KW - Children and parents KW - Parent-child relations KW - Parents and children KW - Children and adults KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Parental alienation syndrome KW - Sandwich generation KW - Conflict, Marital KW - Conflict (Psychology) in marriage KW - Interpersonal conflict KW - Population KW - Families KW - Home economics KW - Immigrant remittances KW - Remittances, Emigrant KW - Foreign exchange KW - Ethnology KW - Family relationships KW - america. KW - american border. KW - children of migrants. KW - discussion books. KW - divided families. KW - economics. KW - emigration immigration. KW - family issues. KW - family ties. KW - family. KW - global economy. KW - immigrants and immigration. KW - immigration and immigrants. KW - mexican children. KW - mexican families. KW - mexican migrants. KW - mexicans. KW - mexico. KW - migrant parents. KW - migrant workers. KW - overcoming adversity. KW - parents and children. KW - parents sacrifices. KW - relocation. KW - social science. KW - thought provoking. KW - transnational families. KW - united states. KW - Mexico KW - Emigration and immigration. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78715017 AB - Since 2000, approximately 440,000 Mexicans have migrated to the United States every year. Tens of thousands have left children behind in Mexico to do so. For these parents, migration is a sacrifice. What do parents expect to accomplish by dividing their families across borders? How do families manage when they are living apart? More importantly, do parents' relocations yield the intended results? Probing the experiences of migrant parents, children in Mexico, and their caregivers, Joanna Dreby offers an up-close and personal account of the lives of families divided by borders. What she finds is that the difficulties endured by transnational families make it nearly impossible for parents' sacrifices to result in the benefits they expect. Yet, paradoxically, these hardships reinforce family members' commitments to each other. A story both of adversity and the intensity of family ties, Divided by Borders is an engaging and insightful investigation of the ways Mexican families struggle and ultimately persevere in a global economy. ER -